[Fedora-packaging] packages which add user accounts: is fedora-usermgmt the way?

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Sun Jul 3 21:00:22 UTC 2005


On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 04:42:40PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> Erhm...  But what about all those existing user bases introduced when
> only the range below 100 was reserved?  My uid at the uni has been 404
> since 1991.  FWIW, it wasn't an HTTP error code back then, to the best
> of my knowledge; it was just the number right after 403.

How long ago was that? If I remember right, the default start number in Red
Hat Linux 4.2 was 500....

But anyway, there's not enough room below 100, so something has to give.

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