-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, 2018-06-08 at 16:34 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 06/08/2018 12:01 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
That's my understanding as well.
Unless the installer could be told to import an external /etc/passwd and /etc/group files.
That's not correct for system UID/GID's. I agree for user UID/GID combos.
User UID/GIDs are not necessarily semi-random, they generally start at 1000 on a first-come, first-served basis (some distros start the user range at 500).
While the system UID/GIDs are distro/implementation defined to some extent -- they should always be consistent within a distribution between releases -- otherwise, that would break configs and applications. Requiring no end of user-interaction required to re-map the system UID/GID's to work with existing data on each new update.
No, they are not consistent at all: avahi:x:463:466:User for Avahi:/run/avah avahi:x:104:106:User for Avahi:/var/r dovecot:x:477:477:User for Dovecot imapd: dovecot:x:119:122:User for Dovecot imapd gdm:x:459:462:Gnome Display Manager dae gdm:x:50:109:Gnome Display Manager Left is my new laptop on 15.0 (passwd file), right is my old desktop machine on 42.3. Just three examples. The numbers are indeed random, there is no organization. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlszuFgACgkQtTMYHG2NR9Wc1wCfUP5tlwQj2adi9Kvyagk7N8Nf FPwAnjC0ywBGT7yezc6JIDuNWClCOhO+ =vnVc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org