Re: Gnome3 on Fedora 16 (Again)
DL Neil <[email protected]>
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Mick, On 18/04/12 11:45, Mick Farmer wrote: > Dear dn, > > I've inherited my username from Fedora 14 before I upgraded to Fedora > 16. My uid/gid is 500/500. > > I used useradd to add user test to my system. The default uid/gid > created was 1000/1000. When I activated the sign in menu, that user was > offered. I remember reading in the Release Notes (one of the recent Fred releases) something about expanding the lower-numbered UID/GUID allocations from a 'pool' of 500 up to 1,000. > So, how does the sign in process decide who can be included in the sign > in menu from all the user names in /etc/passwd? uid/gid? /home entry? > something else? Perhaps the above has something to do with it - that and the fact that you came the 'upgrade' route (cf a fresh installation). At the same time, the guys working on id, authentication, and authorisation may have (exclusively) implemented the new regime... FWIW my clean install's 'first user' does indeed have a UID of 1000. Apparently there was no concept of 'translating' old id allocs to the new scheme. I wonder if there is a post-fact conversion-package? (haven't looked at migration facilities/concerns - am usually too chicken to upgrade between releases, and simply let YUM do its thing or (re-)start a new m/c with 'fresh') > I hope someone out there knows the answer! I'm a cynic from way-back, so guessed it might be something to do with "once was true, no longer is" coupled with a dose of "left hand...right hand". A more believable (and factual) explanation is above my pay-grade... -- Regards, =dn -- Gllug mailing list - [email protected] http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug