Static system level uid/gid's reservations in Fedora/RHEL - how to handle situation?

Krzysztof Halasa khc at pm.waw.pl
Fri Jun 5 11:58:28 UTC 2009


Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> writes:

> I guess I've been blissfully ignorant and always assumed that id's
> under 500 were reserved for system use since Redhat systems have
> always created the first user uid as 500.

I think it was 100 with early RHL.
I'm sure I had to renumerate UIDs, most probably between RHL versions
Or was that Slackware->RHL? Unlikely but possible.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa




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