Creating system users and system groups

[Mark Shuttleworth]

On 02/02/17 14:52, Colin Watson wrote:
> You might like to use
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/user-setup.git/tree/reserved-usernames
> as part of this; d-i and ubiquity both use that as a way of saying "you
> can't use that username because it'll conflict with well-known system
> users".  It doubtless won't be complete (it doesn't currently contain
> avahi, for instance), but it should be a useful starting point.
>

Let's definitely use that as a definitive reference, thanks Colin.

I think we may want to go further and assign specific UIDs, too.

Mark