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

Sun Feb 20 11:01:01 CET 2011

On 02/19/2011 09:28 PM, James Kerr wrote:
+> Open a bug at: ...
+
+As the other replies point out, opinions on this issue are quite 
+different. Before filing a bug, I suggest to see whether some kind of 
+aggreement can be reached.
+
+My opinion:
+1. I have lived for several years with having several OS partitions and 
+sharing user data between them without any problems, as long as the uids 
+and gids are defined correctly.
+
+2. The "advanced" option evidently is a possibility - I consider it 
+slightly annoying, a radio-button would make life easier - respecting 
+the same sequence of defining users is no problem. In fact, what I 
+presently do is, I initially define a dummy user during system install 
+with whatever system install creates as ids, and than use MCC to set up 
+the real users; but that illustrates the point: the radio-button 
+proposal would make this less time consuming.
+
+I do not see a problem for newby users - the radiobutton can be 
+defaulted to 500 (or whatever is considered as "normally needed") - a 
+newby anyhow normally leaves things at default - and it would be easy to 
+add a clarifying comment (of help)
+
+3. From what Michael said, there are only 3 or 4 common alternatives: 
+500, 1000, 1001, possibly 501) - easy to accomodate with a radio-button 
+(in the label of each button I would say "compatible with OpenSuse...)
+
+4. Filling the textpanel for the advanced defition of uid and gid with 
+initial default values is an excellent idea - but these intial default 
+values should correspond to the values proposed in correspondance what 
+Mageia suggests to create - 500 for present Mageia (and not to 
+interesting alternatives) - back to square 1.
+