Re: CORRECTION: Gnome3 on Fedora 16 (Again)

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:49:20AM +0100, Stuart Sears wrote:
<snip> 
> At first, I would probably only concern myself with /home/$username,
> /tmp and /var/tmp
> as those are the only parts of the filesystem to which
> non-privileged users have write access by default.

Mostly true. There are lots of little places in /var that can still
have user-owned files, for example /var/spool/mail or /var/mail. Some
systems place shared files in /srv (for things like Samba or Apache).
/opt and /usr/local can also be used by non-distribution packages.


> That would enable you to login as the newly modified user account
> and then use sudo or su to fix anything else.
> 
> Also, at no point does the advice cover changing the primary GID of
> your user to 1001, which would also be required.
<snip>

Quite right, I missed that one out as well. Thanks for fixing it.

I really should remember not to reply in the morning before I had a
good cup of tea or coffee.


Back to Fedora. It seems odd that the Release Notes says that on
upgraded systems new users will still UID starting in the 500 range
because login.defs is not update:
	https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Release_Notes/sect-Release_Notes-Changes_for_Sysadmin.html#id3021598

Which seems odd, because then the default gdm configuration will not
show the new usernames in it's user list.


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