Ubuntu 10.04 installs first user as UID 1001?
 

Hi,
I just did a new, complete install of Ubu 10.04, installed myself as the first and only user and it gave me a user ID of 1001. All of my old systems gave me 1000. Now, when I NFS mount my other systems, I see ownership by UID 1000 and I have permission problems.

I certainly was not given the ability to choose my own numeric user ID at install time, just full name, short name (login id, brianp) and password twice.

Is there a good reason to skip the old standard UID of 1000 for the primary user on new installs? I would rather have good old 1000. If I just login as root, hack the /etc/passwd file to give user 'brianp' a 1000 user id and then chown -R brianp /home/brianp/*, what will I destroy?

As a limp-around, they seem to have left the users group ID at 100 so I have just made me a member of users group and changed permissions to full for the members of the users group.

Is there a better way to do this?

Thank you,

BrianP

Hello,

Have a look at this link: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-c...-user-name-id/.
Kind regards,

Eric