> On Wed, 25 Sep 2019, Luke Dashjr wrote:
> There is no standard UID number for this purpose, and other distros
> don't appear to have it assigned in their lists either. 493 was just
> the highest one <500 available.
Archlinux uses 492 and 493 for packages that we also have, so we skipped
the
I'd like to reserve GID/UID 493 for system-wide Bitcoin services
(group/user name "bitcoin").
There is no standard UID number for this purpose, and other distros don't
appear to have it assigned in their lists either. 493 was just the highest
one <500 available.
Luke