[Mageia-discuss] Automatic selection of uid and gid at installation

Sat Feb 19 21:24:22 CET 2011

Juergen Harms <Juergen.Harms at unige.ch> schrieb am 2011-02-19
+> I realised that Mageia (like Mandriva) creates uids and gids
+> starting at 500. Many other distros use 1000 - if you have
+> multiple boot system with other linux distros, that means that you
+> need to manually specify user ids if you want to access data
+> shared between the system partitions.
+I don't really understand you there. If you want to access data of 
+another system the UID (and GID) have to be the same. So you would 
+have to keep in mind to create users in the same order on each of 
+those systems.
+
+> How about adding a radio button in the initial User Management
+> Screen (the one where you also provide the root login) which
+> allows you to define whether you want uids and gids automatically
+> created to start at 500 or 1000? That would make life (a little
+> bit) easier for a more and more current situation.
+The question is, why don't we change to 1000 in general. I think most 
+distros nowadays do.
+Mandriva once tried to use 10000, but that never really worked and 
+they set it back to 500...
+
+In this respect it would be nice to fix bug #29 :-)
+
+Oliver
+