UID question

[Bill Vermillion]

On Tue, Jun 29 15:25 , while denying his reply is spam, David Johnson 
prattled on endlessly saying: 

> I am installing a new server with Redhat Linux, Fedora Core 2.

> We have been running Filepro 4.8 since Y2K on a Linux server.
> But we are installing a new server now.

> We started our data files in August 1985 on Tandy Xenix. So our
> user ID numbers are all in the 200s.

> As I enter these old user ID numbers and names on the new server, it 
> complains

> "Creating a user with a UID less than 500 is not recommended.
> Are you sure you want to do this?"

> If I used UID numbers in the 500s, is there some way for
> Filepro to convert these to the old numbers for me so the real
> user name that created a record comes up on the screen?

> Or is this warning something I should just ignore?

As others said - ignore it.  But here's a way to keep it from
nagging at you when you have UID's less than 500.

I guess no one else read the man pages from the other replies
I've seen, as it was not mentioned.

In /etc there is a file called login.defs.

Edit that with your favorite text editor by finding the field
labeled UID_MIN   500    and change the 500 to 200.

It's as simple as that.  There is no magic involved.

There are a few other things you can change and you can see them
when you edit it.

Bill
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