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

Sun Feb 20 02:44:07 CET 2011

On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 07:16:49 am 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?
+> 
+The idea of sharing a /home partition between distros has other problems 
+besides accessing it, but some uniformity in the Linux world would be nice.
+
+Doug.
+