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   <H1>[Mageia-discuss] Automatic selection of uid and gid at	installation</H1>
    <B>Doug Laidlaw</B> 
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    <I>Sun Feb 20 02:44:07 CET 2011</I>
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<PRE>On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 07:16:49 am Juergen Harms wrote:
&gt;<i> I realised that Mageia (like Mandriva) creates uids and gids starting at
</I>&gt;<i> 500. Many other distros use 1000 - if you have multiple boot system with
</I>&gt;<i> other linux distros, that means that you need to manually specify user
</I>&gt;<i> ids if you want to access data shared between the system partitions.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> How about adding a radio button in the initial User Management Screen
</I>&gt;<i> (the one where you also provide the root login) which allows you to
</I>&gt;<i> define whether you want uids and gids automatically created to start at
</I>&gt;<i> 500 or 1000? That would make life (a little bit) easier for a more and
</I>&gt;<i> more current situation.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Is there something like an enhancement bug report?
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>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.
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