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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