Am 10.07.2014 09:37, schrieb Al Dunsmuir: > On Wednesday, July 9, 2014, 1:24:12 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> Am 09.07.2014 19:18, schrieb Chris Adams: >>> Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung@xxxxxxxxxxx> said: >>> Please, no! As soon as you use disparate systems in a network >>> environment, having differing versions of UID_MIN (where recompilation >>> is required to change) is just wrong. As the message above sys, "yes, >>> that is actually used and needed". I see no valid justification for >>> removing that functionality > >> +1 > >> UID_MIN 500 >> UID_MAX 60000 > >> GID_MIN 500 >> GID_MAX 60000 > >> still here in use and that won't change > >> if somebody enforces to change that at compile time he don't >> care for any production setups not re-installed every year >> and decides to break things just for fun > > The boundary between system and user IDs moved from 500 to 1000 > relatively recently (F18). Aside from giving more room for system IDs, > this had the side effect of hiding IDs from 500 to 999 that were > created by older Fedora releases from the GDM logon panel. > > User IDs had to be moved above 999 to be visible again. It was a bit > of a painful transition and that shows why set that at compile time or hardcode it somewhere is wrong and a bad style KDM respects /etc/login.defs cat /etc/passwd | grep harry harry:x:500:501:Reindl Harald:/home/harry:/usr/bin/bash (written from a graphical KDE session)
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