non fedora-usermgmt user creation

Enrico Scholz enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Tue Mar 7 17:11:39 UTC 2006


mmcgrath at fedoraproject.org (Mike McGrath) writes:

>>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?

For general, LSB compliant usage, you have only the first 100 uids which
can be assigned statically. Fedora Core uses a large part of this range
already, so it is not available for Fedora Extras.

The range of 100..499 is reserved for system users too, but for dynamic
assignment only. In another thread on this list, somebody suggested to
change the LSB to allow static uids in this range. I think, this change
will never happen because it would break existing systems.

Uids above 500 is also unavailable because it is used by local systems.




Enrico
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