On 07/04/2011 09:35 AM, Tim wrote: <> > If you're going to change defaults, for where user IDs start from. You > want to move Fedora's up to start at 1000, not Debian's down to start > from 500. > Because each distro considers user IDs below their threshold > to be system/application IDs, and treats them differently. in what way? ria, with fedora, red hat and clones, i have set up myself and special users [admin type] between 500 and 999. regular users, ie, data entry, to be 1000 and up. in unix systems, admin type users where set up 1000 -> 1999 and regular users as 2000 and up. no special reason other than this is what i was told to do years ago. i do not recall if a reason was given other than just to do it. > You don't want to assign a user ID to a number that the OS thinks > belongs to a system ID. so you are saying fedora, red hat and clones, have it wrong? <> > But it's easier to just start users out from user and group ID 1000+. you change fedora's 'login.defs' in your installations? what else? -- peace out. tc.hago, g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** The installation instructions stated to install Windows 2000 or better. So I installed Linux. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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