On Tue, 2019-06-18 at 23:31 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 6/18/19 10:56 PM, Tim via users wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I recently set up Fedora 30 as a new install on a blank SDD. When > > I > > went to create my user it got UID 1000, as I expected (since I was > > the > > first user). But, not as I expected, it got GID 1001, because > > something else had already grabbed it: > > > > $ cat /etc/group|grep 1000 > > hugetlbfs:x:1000:openvswitch > > > > I don't know what hugetlbfs is, nor openvswitch, my brief search > > against those terms doesn't suggest they're something I've set out > > to > > use. Nor do I consider them to be users of any kind. So why are > > they/it using GUI 1000? I always though ID numbers above 1000 were > > for > > people. > > > > Not being GID 1000 is a bit of a pain, NFS-wise, since 1000 belongs > > to > > me on other devices, and 1001 belongs to others. My quick > > workaround > > was to remove my private 1001 group from my user account, and pick > > the > > generic 100 users group. > > > > Though this doesn't stop the issue that whatever > > hugetlbfs/openvswitch > > is, has access to my GID on other devices. Can I remove them? Can > > I > > change their GID? Why are they picking numbers in the user > > range? If > > applications are going to start doing this, it could be a problem. > > I guess you did "dnf info openvswitch" and "dnf info libhugetlbf"? > > I'm guessing those are what resulted in the reservation of the ID's. > And, since you're > not going to use them just "dnf erase" them. Taking note of what > else may be removed. > > FWIW, I just installed those 2 packages on a VM and the user and > group entries were > created when they didn't exist. Erasing the packages didn't remove > the entries. So, as > Todd pointed out, manual intervention will be required. > Maybe the bast solution: - remove the packages - change the groupid in /etc/group to an unused value < 1000 - changw you groupid to 1000 - reinstall the packages /Louis _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
