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wmoore
6 days agoOccasional Contributor
Why the requirement for group id >= 1000?
In various places people have had to discover, and workaround the fact that the 1Password Browser-Helper and CLI not only require being in a specific group (fine), and have setgid set (also fine), bu...
AJCxZ0
3 hours agoSilver Expert
There is a de facto standard for Linux and some other unix platforms for the IDs for users and groups by which human users have UIDs and GIDs starting at 1000. Look for `UID_MIN` and `GID_MIN` in useradd(8) and groupadd(8).
Note that this is distinct from the reserved or built-in system UIDs and GIDs, which are traditionally below 101.
After writing that, I see that systemd-sysusers(8) references Users, Groups, UIDs and GIDs on systemd Systems.