Hello all, Fedora 16 will start user UIDs and GIDs at 1000 instead of 500[1].
Unfortunately some packages need to know the boundary, and usually hard-code it. I have checked the most common packages[2], but I can't check all 10 thousand packages, and I your help with this. Please check the packages you own: * (rpmbuild -bp) your packages * grep the source code for /\<500\>/ * Check the results for code that compares UID or GID values to 500. It may be useful to filter out the following common false positives: - _XOPEN_SOURCE - .po and .pot files - g_timeout_add, gobject.timeout_add, /.*sleep *(500/ Of course you can skip packages that you know very well; but please check packages if you are the tiniest bit unsure - the hard-coded value appears in surprising places (e.g. httpd). If you find code that hard-codes the UID or GID boundary: - Add code that parses /etc/login.defs for the actual value of the boundary (UID_MIN, GID_MIN). [3] contains Python code to do this. - Keep the existing hard-coded boundary as a fallback for cases where /etc/login.defs doesn't exist. I'll be happy to help with the porting or to answer any questions - just send me an e-mail. Thank you, Mirek [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/1000SystemAccounts [2] Those that can be installed by choosing all package groups ("Graphical Desktop", "Software Development", "Web Server") in anaconda without enabling comps groups or packages individually. [3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=510191 -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
