On Wed, 2019-04-17 at 21:36 +0000, Beartooth wrote: > Won't Anaconda do the UID automatically? I don't know UID from > Union Pacific, but I do almost always stick to the same username. Yes, and no... (Anaconda picking the same UID.) It's the *numerical* user identification. Likewise, GID is the group user number. Remember, file permissions have sets for the user, group, and other (everyone/everything else). In general, the system doesn't care what name you've picked for the username, it uses the user *numbers* (for file access, permissions, etc). The name matters when logging in, of course. In that case, it's doing the reverse; you enter a name, it associates your login with the numerical number IP. On ye old Linuxe, user numbers started from 500. So the first user account created would be user number 500, the next 501, etc. In modern Linux, they start from 1000, and my guess is that won't need to change again. So, generally, when nothing has changed in the OS, each time you create your user, you'll get the same UID. And if you create any extra users in the same sequence each time, they'll get the same numerical IPs. But if you create user accounts in a random order, each time you set up a system, you won't get consistent user IDs. This is where most multiuser systems hit a problem, one they don't realise until they try to use NFS, or import old user data. Remember the system cares about the numerical IP, that's what it uses. We are all numbers, we have no names, to the system. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
