Fedora 32 Planning To Make Use Of systemd's sysusers.d For Declaring New Users

[pal666]

Well, technically, those number ranges can be changed in (typically) /etc/login.defs, but importantly, sysusers.d/*.conf is designed to support adding extended system uid/gid ranges (perhaps in the high 32-bit range?), as the space below 1000 is getting crowded with all the new services.

well, it's designed to add httpd user for apache package and the like. so it's target usage is closer to 10 users than to thousand

[starshipeleven]

not in f32.

True but most of the points still stand, they are standardizing the way their packages create users by mimicking systemd's declarative configuration file, that's the main benefit.

[pal666]

True but most of the points still stand, they are standardizing the way their packages create users by mimicking systemd's declarative configuration file, that's the main benefit.

but i was replying to performance concern, which isn't defined by syntax