On 07/20/2011 12:18 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Benjamin Lewis<ben.lewis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 07/20/2011 04:07 PM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: >>> Hello all, >>> Fedora 16 will start user UIDs and GIDs at 1000 instead of 500[1]. >>> >>> Unfortunately some packages need to know the boundary, and usually >>> hard-code it. I have checked the most common packages[2], but I can't >>> check all 10 thousand packages, and I your help with this. >> Out of curiosity, how does this affect existing systems which have human >> UIDs of 500, 501, etc..? >> >> Do they suddenly become system UIDs or is login.defs left alone then >> (and consequently no change happens)? > login.defs is %config(noreplace), so nothing is changed for existing systems. > Mirek I normally build systems with (at least!) a separate /boot, / and /home. This lets me do a full install, blow away old fedora system partitions and not lose any user data. Since that puts down a pristine F16 image, does that mean we need to chown all of the user files that survive in a separate partition? Thanks! Ric -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
