On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 08:25 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 00:30:53 -0700, > Garrett Holmstrom <gholms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Simo Sorce <simo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 20:04 +0000, "JÃhann B. GuÃmundsson" wrote: > > >> reserved/system IDs are supposed to be once that has been done we can > > >> start looking at what is the best approach to implement and or fix > > >> things that might break because of it. > > > > > > Changing the reserved id space should break "only" new allocations on > > > systems that may have used the newly allocated IDs already. > > > The only way to fix that is to have the admin manually intervene after > > > the error is brought to his attanetion. > > > > This affects more than just the space between the old and new > > SYS_UID_MIN. How will you ensure that accountsservice/gdm/etc > > continue to enumerate preexisting user accounts with UIDs that are now > > below UID_MIN? Can this be done while simultaneously preventing > > system accounts in the new range from showing up? > > I can tell you they didn't. I can't login with gdm right now, most likely > because of this. gdm runs but doesn't list any accounts. > gdm should be looking at shells, not uids to decide which accounts to > present. If you click 'other' and type in your username it allows you to login right ? Does it "remember" your name once you logout ? If not I call it a bug in gdm. Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel