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UID 1000 - nice move

UID 1000 - nice move

Posted Aug 24, 2011 17:52 UTC (Wed) by proski (subscriber, #104)
Parent article: Announcing the release of Fedora 16 Alpha

Going to UID 1000 for the first user is highly commendable, especially because Fedora yielded to others to create a de-facto standard where the standard was missing. Even though I use Fedora as my primary development environment, I have to keep Ubuntu on my hard drive to test problems reported by users. It's very convenient to have the same user ID on both, as I can move stuff between the user directories without root permissions. I'm going to convert to UID 1000 without waiting for the new Fedora.


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