Hello,

Patch for the following ticket to add note in documentation about bad uid
ranges:
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2090

Thanks,

Gabe
From ad9af09ef2250c497d75a53846539328df865578 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gabe <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 17:13:13 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] [DOC] Sometimes users set bad uid ranges

https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2090
---
 src/user_guide/en-US/Users.xml | 13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/user_guide/en-US/Users.xml b/src/user_guide/en-US/Users.xml
index a260855b8742b5738c4660beaa400c7e73666c6e..833274342f33331651000a92c34620377d95050f 100644
--- a/src/user_guide/en-US/Users.xml
+++ b/src/user_guide/en-US/Users.xml
@@ -1053,7 +1053,18 @@ Disabling Plugin</screen>
 				 range is depleted so that less than 100 IDs are available, it can contact one of the available servers for a new range allotment. A special extended operation splits the range in two,
 				 so that the original server and the replica each have half of the available range.
 			</para>
-
+			<note>
+				<title>NOTE</title>
+				<para>
+					It is possible for an administrator to define an ID number range — which means that it is possible for an administrator to define a <emphasis>bad</emphasis> range.
+				</para>
+				<para condition="fedora">
+					&OS; reserves all UID/GID numbers below 1000 for system use. SSSD treats all UID/GID numbers below 1000 as local system accounts. If an administrator sets the ID range to start at 500 to interact with a legacy application (for example), then user accounts assigned an ID number below 1000 will be unable to log in, because their user account is not recognized by SSSD.
+				</para>
+				<para condition="redhat">
+					&RHEL; reserves all UID/GID numbers below 1000 for system use. SSSD treats all UID/GID numbers below 1000 as local system accounts. If an administrator sets the ID range to start at 500 to interact with a legacy application (for example), then user accounts assigned an ID number below 1000 will be unable to log in, because their user account is not recognized by SSSD.
+				</para>
+			</note>
 		</section>
 
 		 <section id="Assigning_UIDs_and_GIDs-Adding_New_Ranges">
-- 
1.9.0

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