On 04/23/2014 12:05 PM, Fernando de Oliveira wrote:
> Em 23-04-2014 02:39, Bruce Dubbs escreveu:
>> Ken Moffat wrote:
> 
> 
>>>   I've had a users group in my own builds for years, probably derived
>>> from fedora, and it has always been 1000.  Shadow is now maintained
>>> by debian, no ?  So the fact that it too uses 1000 implies many
>>> people will already use 1000 for the group owning their files.
>>>
>>>   OK, you can set up a completely new set of groups in the LFS
>>> system, but if you share /home between the original host system and
>>> LFS (e.g. until you feel confident that LFS is the right way for
>>> you) then this justs adds unnecessary change.
>>
>> I put in 999 because it keeps useradd from giving a warning message the 
>> first time useradd is run on a base LFS system.  It also makes the first 
>> useradd create UIDs and GIDs the same number.  Perhaps we should ignore 
>> that issue.  But is it OK (esthetically, not technically) to have a 
>> users group of 1000 and the first user with a UID of 1000 and a GID of 1001?
>>
>> Note that the only reason we do any of this is that the acl tests insist 
>> on a group with the name users.  One alternative may be to hack the test 
>> code to use some other group that already exists.  Perhaps:
>>
>> sed -i 's/:users/:dialout/' test/misc.test
>>
>> I haven't tried it, but then a 'users' group wouldn't be needed and we 
>> could revert that change in shadow.
>>
>> My personal approach is usually to just copy passwd/group/shadow from 
>> the old system to the new, but a new user will probably want to just use 
>> useradd.
> 
> In most distributions, first user and group are 1000:1000 with same
> name. I prefer the book as is.
> 

In some distributions I saw that users group is 100 instead of 1000.


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