On Wednesday, 27 June 2018 17:16:17 BST Carlos E. R. wrote:
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:
Worse than that when I created two cluster nodes on tumbleweed my qemu/ libvirt/kvm user uid and gid diddnt match across servers. It seems it is dependent on install order of software. I had groups and users defined on one server with specific uid/gid that didnt match on the users/groups on the other server with with same uids/gids -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org