Re: privileged user in RedHat

On 2024-08-29, David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net> wrote:

On 29/08/2024 13:06, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Wow. It was always 1000 on most systems I ever came in contact with.

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FWIW, didn't actually go to 1000 by default until RHEL7 in 2014 for
Redhat/Redhat-oids...
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https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/migration_planning_guide/chap-red_hat_enterprise_linux-migration_planning_guide-major_changes_and_migration_considerations#sect-Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Migration_Planning_Guide-System_Management-Changes-to-system-accounts
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This change might cause problems when migrating to Red Hat Enterprise

Linux 7 with existing users having UIDs and GIDs between 500 and 999.
The default ranges of UID and GID can be manually changed in the
/etc/login.defs file.
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I'm sure Debian/Debian-oids used 1000 far earlier. debian-policy 3.8.0
from 2008 is just the earliest I can find in its present-day git, and it
was already 1000 then.
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https://salsa.debian.org/dbnpolicy/policy/-/blob/v3.8.0.0/policy.sgml#L5722

I first used Linux in 2000.  I'm sure I didn't change any default, so
RedHat back then was configured to start at 500.  That changed to 1000
sometimes after, but because all my files, backups, external drives were
already tagged "uid 500" I just kept that uid for newer installs, than
change all my files on all my machines.

One day, I'll change the UID.  Changing the ownership of files to match
the new UID isn't too hard.  There's just a lot of drives and archives
that will be affected.