On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 11:31:46PM +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. What? Just asking for information as an ordinary user might cause a change to system files? Doesn't seem likely. -- Jon H. LaBadie jonfu@xxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ 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
