Starting user UIDs at 1000 - please check your packages

[Miloslav Trmač]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Ric Wheeler <rwheeler at redhat.com> wrote:
> I normally build systems with (at least!) a separate /boot, / and /home.
> This lets me do a full install, blow away old fedora system partitions and
> not lose any user data.
>
> Since that puts down a pristine F16 image, does that mean we need to chown
> all of the user files that survive in a separate partition?
Either chown the files, or create a kickstart file that puts
/etc/login.defs in place in a %pre script.  chown is probably much
simpler unless you have many systems to manage.
   Mirek