Starting user UIDs at 1000 - please check your packages

[James Antill]

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".