[Slackbuilds-users] How to suggest new uid/gid for the SBo draft list?

Sebastian Arcus s.arcus at open-t.co.uk
Sat Jun 6 18:03:49 UTC 2015


On 06/06/15 15:51, Matteo Bernardini wrote:
> 2015-06-06 14:09 GMT+02:00 Sebastian Arcus <s.arcus at open-t.co.uk>:
>> What is the procedure to suggest a new pair of user:group for the SBo Draft
>> list found here: http://slackbuilds.org/uid_gid.txt
>>
>> I have just started using syncthing, and the developers warmly recommend
>> running it under its own user/group when ran as a demon - as it wasn't built
>> with the level of security required to be run as root. This makes sense, as
>> many other demons in Linux run under their own user. Thus, I was wondering
>> if it would be possible to add a syncthing:syncthing user/group to the SBo
>> draft list, to be used by the install script?
> Hi Sebastian,
>
> user:group synchting:synchting (uid:gid 307:307) have been added.
>
Wonderful - thanks Matteo. As Rob pointed out, the actual username/group 
should be syncthing (with an "h") if you would please.


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