Ubuntu
user-setup package

When installing, there is no choice of uid

Bug #48986 reported by jmdh
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
user-setup (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: autoinstall

If one is installing as part of an installion or upgrading to Ubuntu fro another distro, there will be pre-existing users with uids predetermined.
To find (without any warning) that you have been allocated an arbitrary uid of 1000 is less than convenient. It requires a risky trip into repair mode to rectify! Advanced users should be given the opportunity to allocate a uid to a new user.

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William Grant (wgrant) wrote :

This is a possibility for the expert installation option in future.

Changed in autoinstall:
importance: Untriaged → Wishlist
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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guenthert (guenthert) wrote :

It affects many people (at least all, which use some form of network file system), not only 'experts'.

I don't want to work through a tedious set of questions during (expert) installation, else I would be using Debian straight. Why not offer a little field with the uid and gid preset to 1000 (or better yet to the value which is found on the user's home directory, if that is to be retained from an earlier installation and no directory service is used).

Fedora gets this better done.

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