2008/11/6 Patrick O'Callaghan <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"> On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 11:26 +0100, Benjamín Valero Espinosa wrote: > 2008/11/6 Tom Horsley > Now that I am being forbidden by "helpful" computer from > logging in as root, I wish the create user screen you get > during the first boot following install had an advanced > button that would bring up the system-config-users app so > I could create the user with a manually specified UID > (since I'll be accessing lots of files created by that > user on previous fedora versions, I like to keep the UID > the same). > > Previously I could just skip the create user step and > login as root to create the initial user. > > Uff, I thought that English language had commas :S This e-mail has > left me breathless. </div>Commas in English prose are not pauses for breath (as they can be in some languages such as Spanish). They are syntactic markers used for dividing the sentence into clauses, separating words in lists etc. IMHO there's nothing wrong with the OP's message and the two commas are used correctly. </blockquote></div> Thanks for your explanation and excuse my ignorance.