Starting user UIDs at 1000 - please check your packages

Wed Jul 20 16:15:34 UTC 2011

On 07/20/2011 04:07 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> Hello all,
> Fedora 16 will start user UIDs and GIDs at 1000 instead of 500[1].
> 
> Unfortunately some packages need to know the boundary, and usually
> hard-code it.  I have checked the most common packages[2], but I can't
> check all 10 thousand packages, and I your help with this.

Out of curiosity, how does this affect existing systems which have human
UIDs of 500, 501, etc..?

Do they suddenly become system UIDs or is login.defs left alone then
(and consequently no change happens)?

-- 
Benjamin Lewis

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