Fedora User Management (revisited)

[Enrico Scholz]

Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net> writes:

>> > But for whatever its worth let's raise the fixed/non-fixed
>> > cross-over from uid/gid 100 to 200 for F8 or F9.
>> 
>> I suggest 500-999; should not break LSB more than the 100-200 idea. But
>> reuid'ing normal users is much easier than doing this for services.
>
> We can only mess with below 500.

to be more exact: below 100


> Moving the bar from 100 to 200/anything will already break
> applications that randomly were allocated to some uid there, and this
> needs to be fixed per package, that's why we need a F8/F9 timeframe
> for doing that.

Why do we want to break existing installations overall? We could use
exisisting solutions like fedora-usermgmt after ironing out documentation
issues.

When my shadow-utils patch gets accepted, shadow-util's '--hint' option
can be used too.



Enrico