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

Sun Feb 20 00:43:34 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.
+>
+
+So why is that a problem for Mageia?
+
+> 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?
+>
+
+There is already an advanced button to allow you to set whatever UID/GID 
+you want during installation.
+It is easy to miss the advanced button though - maybe showing the 
+advanced options on the page - pre-filled with the defaults - labelled 
+as advanced options would be a better compromise.
+New users could just leave them alone and advanced users would not 
+forget about them.
+
+OT...
+The same logic should be applied to the boot loader location - it 
+defaults to MBR but there is no mention of this unless one backtracks 
+from the summary page.
+
+
+