Starting user UIDs at 1000 - please check your packages

[Miloslav Trmač]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Benjamin Lewis <ben.lewis at benl.co.uk> wrote:
> 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)?

login.defs is %config(noreplace), so nothing is changed for existing systems.
   Mirek