remove fedora-usermgmt?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 08:37:52 -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote:

> On Thursday 08 March 2007 08:00:41 am Axel Thimm wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:58:01PM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > > Axel Thimm wrote:
> 
> > OK, I installed it on FC6/x86_64. I picked the README that suggests:
> > > | fedora-useradd 42 -d /home/joe joe
> > >
> > > will create the user 'joe' having '/home/joe' as homedirectory. The
> > > number '42' specifies an UID which is added to a configured,
> > > system-wide base. By default, this base is '300' so that 'joe' will
> > > have the uid 342.
> >
> > My "joe" landed on uid slot "5214". That would actually break when I
> > turn on LDAP on this system, as there is a user on this slot.
> As a test i ran the exact same command on my desktop and my joe ended up at 
> 10003 i double checked i had not configured  /etc/fedora/usermgmt/baseuid  
> and it says 300  which is the default offset.  my user should have been 342 
> based on how its supposed to work 
> 
> as a further test i ran 
> fedora-useradd 40 -d /home/bloggs bloggs
> 
> that user got 10004 something is really wrong with it

No. fedora-usermgmt is _off_ by default. The numerical arg to
fedora-useradd is void. The results is equal to "useradd foo".
See e.g.

  rpm -qi fedora-usermgmt-shadow-utils

Turn it on to get predictable uids/gids, that are relative to 300.