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

Sat Feb 19 21:28:56 CET 2011

On 19/02/11 20:16, Juergen Harms wrote:
+> 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.
+>
+> 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.
+>
+> Is there something like an enhancement bug report?
+>
+
+Open a bug at:
+
+https://bugs.mageia.org/
+
+and select Enhancement as the Severity.
+
+Jim
+
+