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

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Mon Jul 4 16:17:22 UTC 2005


On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 10:41:14AM -0500, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> > Exactly; that's why, Fedora Extras can not claim a fixed UID range
> > there. Neither in 100-499, nor in 500-2^16, nor in the upper 32 bit
> > range.
> Nevertheless, we need to have a default. I'm not opposed to using the
> existing user tools to create the IDs, merely that the default starting
> UID should be 300.

And that we should have a registry of standard fixed UIDs within that range,
right?


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