On Wednesday, July 9, 2014, 1:24:12 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 09.07.2014 19:18, schrieb Chris Adams:
> Once upon a time, Lennart Poettering <mzerqung(a)0pointer.de> said:
> Please, no! As soon as you use disparate systems in a network
> environment, having differing versions of UID_MIN (where recompilation
> is required to change) is just wrong. As the message above sys, "yes,
> that is actually used and needed". I see no valid justification for
> removing that functionality
+1
UID_MIN 500
UID_MAX 60000
GID_MIN 500
GID_MAX 60000
still here in use and that won't change
if somebody enforces to change that at compile time he don't
care for any production setups not re-installed every year
and decides to break things just for fun
The boundary between system and user IDs moved from 500 to 1000
relatively recently (F18). Aside from giving more room for system IDs,
this had the side effect of hiding IDs from 500 to 999 that were
created by older Fedora releases from the GDM logon panel.
User IDs had to be moved above 999 to be visible again. It was a bit
of a painful transition.
Does this mean the system headers were not updated to match?
Al