--- Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's perfectly safe to keep those users starting at
> 500. Debian
> packages that want an id in the 100-999 range will
> dynamically allocate
> it with adduser, which will never trample over an
> existing user, and it
> doesn't matter what user id it p
--- Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> uid's 100 - 999 are reserved for the packaging
> system/daemons etc.
> you won't likely have a problem but it would be
> better to migrate to
> debian policy anyway.
Yeah, that's about how I'm thinking about it, too.
Debian goes through so much to
--- Ernest Johanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
> One idea might be to do a search and replace on the
> passwd file, placing a
> 1 (or 2, etc) in front of the existing user id. That
> would necessitate
> changing the ids on the user's files. I had a
> similar situation and wrote
> a Perl sc
This is not a "Which is better, Red Hat or Debian?"
question, but a very specific question about a distro
migration of one specific box. I've done a lot of
research on this, and have found no answers particular
enough to my situation.
The box in question is still running RH 5.2 (with all
security
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