Fedora User Management (revisited)

Callum Lerwick seg at haxxed.com
Thu Mar 8 05:47:47 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 22:21 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le mardi 06 mars 2007 à 15:07 -0600, Mike McGrath a écrit :
> > I've even offered my preferred way which 
> > would work for everyone; make it transparent and replace useradd.  
> > Anything less than that is a hack.
> 
> Or bite the bullet and reserve a new fixed uid range

Been done. Add 300 to these:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageUserRegistry

If anyone has special requirements for system UID ranges, they can
pre-create users *before* installing packages. Presumably in this
situation LDAP or something is being used anyway.
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