Hi,

I recently set up Fedora 30 as a new install on a blank SDD.  When I
went to create my user it got UID 1000, as I expected (since I was the
first user).  But, not as I expected, it got GID 1001, because
something else had already grabbed it:

$ cat /etc/group|grep 1000
hugetlbfs:x:1000:openvswitch

I don't know what hugetlbfs is, nor openvswitch, my brief search
against those terms doesn't suggest they're something I've set out to
use.  Nor do I consider them to be users of any kind.  So why are
they/it using GUI 1000?  I always though ID numbers above 1000 were for
people.

Not being GID 1000 is a bit of a pain, NFS-wise, since 1000 belongs to
me on other devices, and 1001 belongs to others.  My quick workaround
was to remove my private 1001 group from my user account, and pick the
generic 100 users group.

Though this doesn't stop the issue that whatever hugetlbfs/openvswitch
is, has access to my GID on other devices.  Can I remove them?  Can I
change their GID?  Why are they picking numbers in the user range?  If
applications are going to start doing this, it could be a problem.

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