On 07/04/2011 09:35 AM, Tim wrote:
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If you're going to change defaults, for where user IDs start
from. You
want to move Fedora's up to start at 1000, not Debian's down to start
from 500.
Because each distro considers user IDs below their threshold
to be system/application IDs, and treats them differently.
in what way?
ria, with fedora, red hat and clones, i have set up myself and special
users [admin type] between 500 and 999. regular users, ie, data entry,
to be 1000 and up.
in unix systems, admin type users where set up 1000 -> 1999 and regular
users as 2000 and up.
no special reason other than this is what i was told to do years ago.
i do not recall if a reason was given other than just to do it.
You don't want to assign a user ID to a number that the OS
thinks
belongs to a system ID.
so you are saying fedora, red hat and clones, have it wrong?
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But it's easier to just start users out from user and group ID
1000+.
you change fedora's 'login.defs' in your installations? what else?
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