non fedora-usermgmt user creation

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 10:51:19 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:

> 
> >Ok, let's start at the beginning:
> >
> >1. you register your user in the wiki. Wiki-locking/verifying your
> >   changes should guarantee uniqueness for the chosen uid and username
> >  
> >
> If we have to register our name anyway, why not just use said registered
> UID?

Because you don't want to dictate what uid other admins have to use. You
leave to them the decision of picking a predictably free uid range, and
fedora-usermgmt can make use of that range, if it's enabled, and map
the registered _relative_ uid into the chosen _range_.

> I should mention at this point that I'm not against using
> fedora-usermgmt I just don't get it.