In practice, Debian and Ubuntu have fixed minimum system UIDs and GIDs

Re:In practice, Debian and Ubuntu have fixed minimum system ... by LeoPanthera on Saturday January 08, 2022 @10:02PM (#29859532)

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.

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Re:In practice, Debian and Ubuntu have fixed minimum system ... by mboerwink on Sunday January 09, 2022 @12:06AM (#29860361)

I 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.)

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Re:In practice, Debian and Ubuntu have fixed minimum system ... by LeoPanthera on Sunday January 09, 2022 @12:57AM (#29860662)

I appreciate your anti-collision efforts. ;)

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Re:In practice, Debian and Ubuntu have fixed minimum system ... by whitepoplar on Saturday January 08, 2022 @11:25PM (#29860087)

Why do you manually pick user UID/GIDs?

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Re:In practice, Debian and Ubuntu have fixed minimum system ... by LeoPanthera on Saturday January 08, 2022 @11:31PM (#29860125)

So they are the same everywhere.

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Re:In practice, Debian and Ubuntu have fixed minimum system ... by whitepoplar on Sunday January 09, 2022 @12:21AM (#29860431)

Cool, just curious...why do you want them to be the same everywhere?

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Re:In practice, Debian and Ubuntu have fixed minimum system ... by LeoPanthera on Sunday January 09, 2022 @12:55AM (#29860647)

NFS, and also just sneakernet. It means you don't have to worry about formatting large external disks with something weird like exFAT.

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Re:In practice, Debian and Ubuntu have fixed minimum system ... by mzs on Sunday January 09, 2022 @12:36AM (#29860524)

NFS?

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Re:In practice, Debian and Ubuntu have fixed minimum system ... by yjftsjthsd-h on Sunday January 09, 2022 @12:58AM (#29860667)

Or 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

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