Easylife utility confounded by legacy UID 500 in FC16
With Fedora Core 16 UIDs (and GIDs) now start at 1000 instead of 500 as was the case previously . However, if a system has been upgraded from a previous version of Fedora, existing UIDs and GIDs are preserved. I recently found that this creates an ambiguous situation for the easylife utility . Easylife is a utility that allows Fedora users to configure their systems by helping to install things like fonts, drivers, codecs and the like. When the easylife program is invoked as a regular user the consolehelper program is in turn invoked which requests the root password. When I did this after supplying the root password, the program would terminate with a window that popped up and displayed the following error message NO regular user found! It's a dangerous mistake to use your system as root. Most programs don't expect to be run with root privileges. Create a regular user and login again. Then you should run this program again. It turns out that easylife is ma...