On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 11:31:46PM +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.
What? Just asking for information as an ordinary user might
cause a change to system files? Doesn't seem likely.
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