On Tue, 2011-12-06 at 23:27 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 12/06/2011 10:50 PM, Craig White wrote: > > out of curiosity, what is the requirement for having uidNumbers starting > > at 500 instead of 1000? > > > > Because I've had this system running since F8 and have three different > users right now. Keeping the numbers the way they are is much simpler > than trying to get all three of them changed over. You do understand > the KISS principle, don't you? ---- You really should not be so condescending... it was uncalled for. Are you suggesting that it's easier to do a kickstart just to create users with specific uidNumbers rather than just 'chown joe:joe /home/joe -R' ? 3 users? If so, then we have decidedly different notions of keeping things simple. ---- > > I don't think that the Live CD isn't going to be friendly to keeping > > your /home partition. > > Of course it isn't, which is why I'd never, under any circumstances > consider installing from a LiveCD. Back when I didn't have a DVD drive, > I'd get all six CDs and burn them just so that I could properly > customize my installs or have everything available for an upgrade. ---- I use USB flash disks for this. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org