I was looking through some of the resources articles and came across How to set user ID to 1000 (instead of 1001)
Why would you want/need to do this?
What would be a real world use case?
OMLx creates the default or first user as id 1001. Some distros use 1000 some use 1001. If I remember it had something to do with people wanting to use a common /home partition for multiple os’s. Something I do not do and do not recommend. And I do multi-boot. Mixed config files being one obvious pitfall.
I know we had some people get irate about it, where I thought it was pretty obvious how to workaround that. Anyway it has not come up in a long time.
Do your install with a dummy user name and after install create the user you want with id 1000 if you need that.
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Thanks for taking the time to relpy. Due to health problems I have to give my current carrier in the building industry as a plomber. I am thinking about IT not so much programing but harware maintenance and sysadmin so these things really interest me.
I think this topic may fit to Support.
Moving.
I can understand why the default uid/gid assignment might have annoyed some people, honestly. On a fresh install of ROME there are a bunch of system groups allocated in the 1000-- range, and my user account is assigned uid = 1001 and gid = 1006 as a result. In my experience uids/gids in that range are typically reserved for sysadmin use, and having system groups allocated in there does throw a spanner in the works. It is easy enough to work around, though, to map uids/gids for user accounts into the 1100-- range instead, which is what I plan to do.
Or, perhaps is it safe to simply remove the offending groups? That would be the easier solution. They are vboxsf (1001), network (1003), storage (1004), and sambashare (1005). I don’t use virtualbox, nor samba; but what are the network and storage groups used for?
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