On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 03:30:12AM -0500, William Park wrote: > Just curious... > > I noticed that distros tend to create user account with unique UID and > unique GID (and usually both are the same id). For example, UID=1000 > and GID=1000. > > What is the reason behind it?
There isn't one. But most distributions use uid/gid 1000+ as regular users, and if you always create a user and their matching group (as the adduser and such tools do by default), then the assigned numbers will always stay in sync since they are allocated at the same rate. So it is pretty much just a coincidence. -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
