Starting user UIDs at 1000 - please check your packages

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 17:02 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 13:59 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 12:57 -0400, James Antill wrote:
> > > 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".
> 
> Sometimes you have to break some eggs, that said I would favor changing
> the behavior to grow from 400 up to 999 instead of grown down from 999
> to 400, sounds more sensible.
> 
> > I agree. We KNOW that this will impact a number of users - many of them
> > in a position to have to support older machines and newer machines and
> > will be wedged with some awful solutions for a while.
> > 
> > If we can't go to 999 how about we go way up to the 2million+ range?
> 
> That would be *much* worse.
> 

Why?
-sv