Fresh install Fedora 10 X86_64 problems

Jim mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net
Wed Apr 1 19:55:44 UTC 2009


m wrote:
> Jim wrote:
>> Tim wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 19:46 -0400, Jim wrote:
>>>  
>>>> How would i write down sequence of each USER, so this won't happen
>>>> next time I upgrade this  Box ??
>>>>     
>>>
>>> ls -n /home
>>>
>>> See the user and group numbers instead of names?  Use the same numbers
>>> when creating new users.  You can manually pick numbers when you create
>>> new users, or if the IDs all go upwards sequentially from 500, simply
>>> create the first user who has ID 500, then create the next user and
>>> they'll get the next highest number, you just have to pick the names in
>>> the right sequence.
>>>
>>>   
>> Right now the first number doesn't start at 500, it starts at 502.
>> How do you manully put the numbers in as you add users:groups ?
>>
> man useradd , its the -u option as I recall.
>
> or
>
> you can specify it in the GUI for Users and Groups.
>
Thanks very much for the info.

Jim




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