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+ <H1>[Mageia-discuss] Automatic selection of uid and gid at installation</H1>
+ <B>Michael Scherer</B>
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+ <I>Sat Feb 19 22:20:38 CET 2011</I>
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+<PRE> On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 21:16:49 +0100, Juergen Harms wrote:
+&gt;<i> I realised that Mageia (like Mandriva) creates uids and gids starting
+</I>&gt;<i> at 500. Many other distros use 1000 - if you have multiple boot
+</I>&gt;<i> system
+</I>&gt;<i> with other linux distros, that means that you need to manually
+</I>&gt;<i> specify
+</I>&gt;<i> user ids if you want to access data shared between the system
+</I>&gt;<i> partitions.
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+ So far, fedora start at 500, mandriva start at 500, centos/rhel too.
+
+ debian/ubuntu start at 1000, gentoo start at 1000,
+
+ arch at 1001.
+
+ Os x start at 501.
+
+ I am not sure for opensuse, but I think they also start at 500.
+ ( to be checked ).
+
+ So if we switch to 1000, people will just complain that we broke
+ compatibility with the other half of distributions, and this will not
+ help people
+ using some system like arch or os x.
+
+&gt;<i> How about adding a radio button in the initial User Management Screen
+</I>&gt;<i> (the one where you also provide the root login) which allows you to
+</I>&gt;<i> define whether you want uids and gids automatically created to start
+</I>&gt;<i> at 500 or 1000? That would make life (a little bit) easier for a more
+</I>&gt;<i> and more current situation.
+</I>
+ I would be against, most people installing a distribution will not
+ have the slight idea of what this will be about. We could try to add
+ something
+ that do auto detection of an other distribution and act accordingly (
+ like
+ &quot;do you want use to reuse users and system setting of the current
+ distribution&quot; ),
+ but that's more complex.
+ But I think this would be better for user that switch distros
+ ( and for those that use more than 2, they will have to do by hand, we
+ should
+ not add layer and layer of complexity to handle every possible case ).
+
+--
+ Michael Scherer
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