On Tue, 2019-06-18 at 23:31 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 6/18/19 10:56 PM, Tim via users wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I guess you did "dnf info openvswitch" and "dnf info libhugetlbf"?
> 
> I'm guessing those are what resulted in the reservation of the ID's. 
> And, since you're
> not going to use them just "dnf erase" them.  Taking note of what
> else may be removed.
> 
> FWIW, I just installed those 2 packages on a VM and the user and
> group entries were
> created when they didn't exist.  Erasing the packages didn't remove
> the entries.  So, as
> Todd pointed out, manual intervention will be required.
> 
Maybe the bast solution:
- remove the packages
- change the groupid in /etc/group to an unused value < 1000
- changw you groupid to 1000
- reinstall the packages

/Louis
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