Starting user UIDs at 1000 - please check your packages

[Garrett Holmstrom]

On 2011-07-20 9:18, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Benjamin Lewis<ben.lewis at benl.co.uk>  wrote:
>> 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.

I was under the impression that few users edit login.defs.  Won't a 
package update replace it when it hasn't been manually changed?

Maybe I'm missing some important bit of information...