On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 6:57 PM, James Antill <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 22:59 +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:55 PM, James Antill <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > 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, ... . > > Doing it this way means it is guaranteed 100% incompatible between > versions, NFS etc. will be a giant pain for a lot of users. Would it not > be possible to change the behaviour to be more compatible (Eg. assign > the first 99 from 499-400, and then move to 999)? No, applications expect system accounts and user accounts to have non-overlapping ID intervals. So this would be just a more broken version of keeping the limit at 500. Mirek -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
