Re: Two things still broken on FC16 for me

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On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 12:04 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 15:38 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 14:20 -0800, Erinn Looney-Triggs wrote:
> > 
> > > Cool, well glad to see that is being dealt with. No takers for the GDM
> > > problem?
> > 
> > Not sure about that one, haven't seen it on either of my systems. They
> > both log me in successfully every time.
> 
> The one thing that I ran into yesterday when doing some test builds, was
> when creating a user I tried to use a specific UID in 500 (due to things
> on my server side) and it caused problems in kdm or gdm.  Once I did an
> install and used the default of 1000 (changed things on my server side
> to match and for future upgrade) then things seemed to work as should.
> Although the only thing I didn't test was gdm, as I am using KDE and
> didn't do another install to see what would happen on the gdm/gnome side
> with default user.
> 
> If your upgrading then maybe there is a problem since using older #'s,
> then again might be something else totally different.

What I found happened if you used a uid under 1000 was the user simply
didn't show up in gdm at all, as it's considered a 'system user'.
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