On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 13:59 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 12:57 -0400, James Antill 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)? > > It seems like a big price to pay to go from "you may be affected" to > > "we guarantee we've it". Sometimes you have to break some eggs, that said I would favor changing the behavior to grow from 400 up to 999 instead of grown down from 999 to 400, sounds more sensible. > I agree. We KNOW that this will impact a number of users - many of them > in a position to have to support older machines and newer machines and > will be wedged with some awful solutions for a while. > > If we can't go to 999 how about we go way up to the 2million+ range? That would be *much* worse. Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
