On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 07:16:49 am 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. > > 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? > The idea of sharing a /home partition between distros has other problems besides accessing it, but some uniformity in the Linux world would be nice.
Doug.
