On 19/02/11 20:16, Juergen Harms wrote:
I realised that Mageia (like Mandriva) creates uids and gids starting at
500. Many other distros use 1000 - if you have multiple boot system with
other linux distros, that means that you need to manually specify user
ids if you want to access data shared between the system partitions.
So why is that a problem for Mageia?
How about adding a radio button in the initial User Management Screen
(the one where you also provide the root login) which allows you to
define whether you want uids and gids automatically created to start at
500 or 1000? That would make life (a little bit) easier for a more and
more current situation.
Is there something like an enhancement bug report?
There is already an advanced button to allow you to set whatever UID/GID
you want during installation.
It is easy to miss the advanced button though - maybe showing the
advanced options on the page - pre-filled with the defaults - labelled
as advanced options would be a better compromise.
New users could just leave them alone and advanced users would not
forget about them.
OT...
The same logic should be applied to the boot loader location - it
defaults to MBR but there is no mention of this unless one backtracks
from the summary page.
