Re: Safe change of uid
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 05:27:14PM -0500, Elmer E. Dow wrote:
> Kuser is the KDE gui that's supposed to take the place of the command
> line user management. It follows the Red Hat convention of users uid
> starting at 500 instead of the Debian rule that starts them at 1000.
If the program isn't following the Debian Policy for users and group
ID ranges, then it's buggy. Please do file a bug report about it;
this one is a serious policy violation since the users are being
created in the system range.
Regards,
Roger
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