Hi folks, I want to add some new machines, running 7.1, into an ldap managed cluster consisting of 6.x machines. 7 wants system accounts numbered under 1000, 6 was happy with under 500. Many users and countless files over a number of machines have uids between 500 and 1000: a global migration to the new scheme would be A Lot Of Work. This fedora features proposal page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/1000SystemAccounts suggests dropping in a tweaked /etc/login.defs file in kickstart's %pre section for people in my situation. Unfortunately, the filesystem doesn't exist yet in %pre, so that's too early to pull in a tweaked file. In %post, all the system accounts are already made and many config files have pulled the UID min and max values from the default login.defs file already, so that's too late. Only way forward seems to be build my own shadow-utils rpm with the tweaked UID ranges, then build my own install image with this replacement rpm. Given that the above URL, which was the official point of discussion when the feature was introduced, suggests something that's not actually possible - something which surely has bitten every other site moving from 6->7 - is this really the best way to do it? I'm hoping that in my kickstart ignorance there's some intermediate stage between %pre and %post, where the official suggestion actually works! thanks, Alec -- Alec Habig University of Minnesota Duluth Dept. of Physics and Astronomy [log in to unmask] http://neutrino.d.umn.edu/~habig/