New Fedora 22 Change proposal: systemd-sysusers

[Reindl Harald]

Am 10.07.2014 09:37, schrieb Al Dunsmuir:
> On Wednesday, July 9, 2014, 1:24:12 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>> Am 09.07.2014 19:18, schrieb Chris Adams:
>>> Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung at 0pointer.de> said:
>>> Please, no!  As soon as you use disparate systems in a network
>>> environment, having differing versions of UID_MIN (where recompilation
>>> is required to change) is just wrong.  As the message above sys, "yes,
>>> that is actually used and needed".  I see no valid justification for
>>> removing that functionality
> 
>> +1
> 
>> UID_MIN                   500
>> UID_MAX                 60000
> 
>> GID_MIN                   500
>> GID_MAX                 60000
> 
>> still here in use and that won't change
> 
>> if somebody enforces to change that at compile time he don't
>> care for any production setups not re-installed every year
>> and decides to break things just for fun
> 
> The  boundary  between  system  and  user  IDs  moved from 500 to 1000
> relatively recently (F18). Aside from giving more room for system IDs,
> this  had  the  side  effect  of hiding IDs from 500 to 999 that were
> created by older Fedora releases from the GDM logon panel.
> 
> User  IDs  had to be moved above 999 to be visible again. It was a bit
> of a painful transition

and that shows why set that at compile time or hardcode
it somewhere is wrong and a bad style

KDM respects /etc/login.defs

cat /etc/passwd | grep harry
harry:x:500:501:Reindl Harald:/home/harry:/usr/bin/bash

(written from a graphical KDE session)

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