Shorewall users - Jul 2003 - three-interface group 500 user 500

Is there a reason why the group and user are assigned to 500 rather than
root when you unpack ''three-interfaces''?

 

John

On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 04:38, John Hedge wrote:
> Is there a reason why the group and user are assigned to 500 rather than
> root when you unpack ''three-interfaces''?
The only reason is that 500:500 is my id on my Linux Workstation.

-Tom
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Tom Eastep    \ Shorewall - iptables made easy
Shoreline,     \ http://shorewall.net
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Thx Tom
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Eastep [mailto:teastep@shorewall.net]
> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 11:38 PM
> To: John Hedge
> Cc: Shorewall-users@lists.shorewall.net
> Subject: Re: [Shorewall-users] three-interface group 500 user 500
> 
> On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 04:38, John Hedge wrote:
> > Is there a reason why the group and user are assigned to 500 rather
than
> > root when you unpack ''three-interfaces''?
> 
> The only reason is that 500:500 is my id on my Linux Workstation.
> 
> -Tom
> --
> Tom Eastep    \ Shorewall - iptables made easy
> Shoreline,     \ http://shorewall.net
> Washington USA  \ teastep@shorewall.net