Starting user UIDs at 1000 - please check your packages

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 12:57 -0400, James Antill wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 22:59 +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:55 PM, James Antill <james at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > >  Is it really necessary to change this in %pre ... can't you just copy
> > > your old login.defs file over the installed one during kickstart %post
> > > (or even do it by hand, post install)?
> > 
> > Unfortunately it is necessary to do it in %pre because users and
> > groups created in package scriptlets without specifiying an UID/GID
> > explicitly get assigned 999, 998, ... .
> 
>  Doing it this way means it is guaranteed 100% incompatible between
> versions, NFS etc. will be a giant pain for a lot of users. Would it not
> be possible to change the behaviour to be more compatible (Eg. assign
> the first 99 from 499-400, and then move to 999)?
>  It seems like a big price to pay to go from "you may be affected" to
> "we guarantee we've it".

I agree. We KNOW that this will impact a number of users - many of them
in a position to have to support older machines and newer machines and
will be wedged with some awful solutions for a while.

If we can't go to 999 how about we go way up to the 2million+ range?

either way: +1 to what James wrote.

-sv