Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 16

2011-11-08 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 21:18 +, Alan Cox wrote: > On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 02:37:55 +0530 > Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > > On 11/09/2011 01:35 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > > > On 11/08/2011 11:50 AM, Mike Chambers wrote: > > >> Fedora is a leading-edge, free and open source operating system that > > >> cont

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 16

2011-11-08 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 02:37:55 +0530 Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 11/09/2011 01:35 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 11/08/2011 11:50 AM, Mike Chambers wrote: > >> Fedora is a leading-edge, free and open source operating system that > >> continues to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new > >

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 16

2011-11-08 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/09/2011 01:35 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 11/08/2011 11:50 AM, Mike Chambers wrote: >> Fedora is a leading-edge, free and open source operating system that >> continues to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new >> release about every six months. > > Whoever wrote this misspelled

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 16

2011-11-08 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/08/2011 11:50 AM, Mike Chambers wrote: > Fedora is a leading-edge, free and open source operating system that > continues to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new > release about every six months. Whoever wrote this misspelled the word "bleeding." -- users mailing list users

Announcing the release of Fedora 16

2011-11-08 Thread Mike Chambers
roject.org, test-annou...@lists.fedoraproject.org, devel-annou...@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Announcing the release of Fedora 16. Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 08:01:02 -0700 The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of Fedora 16 ("Verne"). Fedora is a leading-edge, free and o

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 16 Beta!!

2011-10-05 Thread suvayu ali
Hello Michael, Ian and everyone else, On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > suvayu ali wrote: >> I see that usermod can do this[1], but I'm not sure if there will be >> conflicts with existing files after the change. > > If you are using plain authentication and not somethi

Re: updating users and groups (was Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 16 Beta!!)

2011-10-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 17:56 -0600, Peter Gueckel wrote: > I recommend that you manually change the user and group IDs (UID & GID) prior > to upgrading the system. > > On the old system: > > usermod -g 1000 username > usermod -u 1000 username > > Then run: > > chown -R username:username directo

Re: updating users and groups (was Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 16 Beta!!)

2011-10-04 Thread Peter Gueckel
I recommend that you manually change the user and group IDs (UID & GID) prior to upgrading the system. On the old system: usermod -g 1000 username usermod -u 1000 username Then run: chown -R username:username directory chgrp -R username:username directory for all of your directories. Reboot

Re: updating users and groups (was Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 16 Beta!!)

2011-10-04 Thread Tom Horsley
Speaking of system users > 1000 now, does system-config-users still think 500 is the magic number? I could swear I remember seeing a bunch of strange users various services installed to provide themselves a unique user when I run s-c-u on f16, but didn't stop to think about it at the time. Usually

updating users and groups (was Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 16 Beta!!)

2011-10-04 Thread Ian Malone
On 4 October 2011 16:50, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 16:55 +0200, suvayu ali wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Dennis Gilmore wrote: >> >    * System Accounts. Fedora now standardizes on login.defs as >> > authority for UID/GID space allocation, and has move

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 16 Beta!!

2011-10-04 Thread Stephen Gallagher
On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 16:55 +0200, suvayu ali wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > >* System Accounts. Fedora now standardizes on login.defs as > > authority for UID/GID space allocation, and has moved boundary between > > system and user accounts from 500

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 16 Beta!!

2011-10-04 Thread JD
On 10/04/2011 08:33 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Tue, 04 Oct 2011 08:15:18 -0700 > JD wrote: > >> Where are the ISO's for F16 Beta? > The same place(es) that any pre-release Fedora are: > > http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease > > (That has torrent and direct link options). > > kevin Thanx. --

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 16 Beta!!

2011-10-04 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Tue, 04 Oct 2011 08:15:18 -0700 JD wrote: > Where are the ISO's for F16 Beta? The same place(es) that any pre-release Fedora are: http://fedoraproject.org/get-prerelease (That has torrent and direct link options). kevin signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- users mailing list us

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 16 Beta!!

2011-10-04 Thread Michael Cronenworth
suvayu ali wrote: > I see that usermod can do this[1], but I'm not sure if there will be > conflicts with existing files after the change. If you are using plain authentication and not something like LDAP you can use usermod and edit groups with groupmod. You can manually edit /etc/passwd or /et

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 16 Beta!!

2011-10-04 Thread JD
On 10/04/2011 07:55 AM, suvayu ali wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Dennis Gilmore wrote: >> * System Accounts. Fedora now standardizes on login.defs as >> authority for UID/GID space allocation, and has moved boundary between >> system and user accounts from 500 to 1000 to mat

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 16 Beta!!

2011-10-04 Thread suvayu ali
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:55 PM, suvayu ali wrote: > In any case I would be interested in knowing how to do this manually. I see that usermod can do this[1], but I'm not sure if there will be conflicts with existing files after the change. Footnotes: [1] Possible with the -g and -u option, but t

Re: Announcing the release of Fedora 16 Beta!!

2011-10-04 Thread suvayu ali
Hi, On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Dennis Gilmore wrote: >    * System Accounts. Fedora now standardizes on login.defs as > authority for UID/GID space allocation, and has moved boundary between > system and user accounts from 500 to 1000 to match conventions > followed by several other Linux di