On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 10:49:06PM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > > Good design makes easy things easy and more complicated things possible. > It also hides irrelevant things. Hence the "advanced" button. > Why do you need to select a specific user id when creating a new user ? > I guess you are not creating a new user at all, but trying to recreate > an existing one, to reuse the home directory, etc. Right ? Often, yes. But I also like to have all user ids the same at home so usernames on removable media just match up. I don't have complicated enough home network (or enough users!) to justify LDAP or even NIS, and anyway I need disconnected operation. So matching up user ids is nice. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
