On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 06:35, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
> Signoff shadow. Â*Fixes always creating system groups with ID 99 (FS#16092).
>
> Now UID/GIDs are as follows:
>
> 0-499 -> reserved for Arch packaging
> 500-999 -> system users/groups
> 1000-60000 -> general users/groups.
>
> For some reason "groupadd --system" starts adding groups at 999 and working
> down, but that appears an upstream decision.
>
> Signoff both,