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When creating users, I always manually pick a UID/GID, generally starting at 2000, which, from experience, is the lowest number that does not conflict with any
by LeoPanthera 5y ago
When creating users, I always manually pick a UID/GID, generally starting at 2000, which, from experience, is the lowest number that does not conflict with any system range on any UNIX-like OS.
- whitepoplar 5y agoWhy do you manually pick user UID/GIDs?
- LeoPanthera 5y agoSo they are the same everywhere.
- whitepoplar 5y agoCool, just curious...why do you want them to be the same everywhere?
- mzs 5y agoNFS?
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoOr any way of moving files around that doesn't translate UIDs or where translating UIDs is more work; ex. rsync will default to trying to match by user name, but I'm pretty sure tar won't always
- LeoPanthera 5y agoNFS, and also just sneakernet. It means you don't have to worry about formatting large external disks with something weird like exFAT.
- mboerwink 5y agoI start my manual picks at 3000 to avoid conflicts with users created by people like you. (I'm not only making a joke, I really do. My siblings are people like you, too.)
- LeoPanthera 5y agoI appreciate your anti-collision efforts. ;)