On Tue, 2019-06-18 at 11:24 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > It looks like this was filed as: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1646774 > > It's not clear whether the maintainer intends to push the > trivial fix to existing branches or not. I think that it > should be fixed in f29 and f30 as well (though anyone with > the package already installed will have to take manual steps > to fix the existing group gid, unfortunately).
I skipped 29, so I never noticed this issue until now. Manual group deletion is easy enough. It's interesting to see that there's an entry for user & group nobody 65534, I've never seen that before (Kernel Overflow User). Again that seems odd for what I'd consider to be some kind of system user (i.e. not a real person), I'm not sure whether I need to keep it, and it does cause its own oddity: If you create a new user, and let the "User and Groups" Mate/Gnome configurator choose the UID & GID numbers for you, it picks the next highest free number: 65535 e.g. I just followed the bouncing ball, so to speak, with the graphical user manager, to make a test user, filling in names and passwords above the line, letting it manage things below, and got these results: UserName UserID Primary Group Full Name Login Shell Home directory tim 1000 users Tim /bin/bash /home/tim nobody 65534 nobody Kernel Overflow User /sbin/nologin / test 65535 test test /bin/bash /home/test Yet, if I use the useradd command, the account gets UID & GID 1001. The graphical tool comes with the following options preset ticked: Hide system users and groups Automatically assigned UID must be the highest Automatically assigned GID must be the highest Prefer that private GID is the same as UID If I untick the two auto-assigned IDs must be the highest options, a new user created by the GUI tool gets UID & GID of 1002 (the next free 1000-range of ID numbers, at the time). Though the config tools shows ghosted 1002 and 65535 UID and GID numbers during the process. I usually manually pick ID numbers, anyway (to make life easier with NFS), but I'm not sure what the average user is going to experience. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
