On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:55 PM, James Antill <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 18:28 +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > 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? >> Either chown the files, or create a kickstart file that puts >> /etc/login.defs in place in a %pre script. chown is probably much >> simpler unless you have many systems to manage. > > Is it really necessary to change this in %pre ... can't you just copy > your old login.defs file over the installed one during kickstart %post > (or even do it by hand, post install)? Unfortunately it is necessary to do it in %pre because users and groups created in package scriptlets without specifiying an UID/GID explicitly get assigned 999, 998, ... . Mirek -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel