GID does not have to equal UID. It just does by convention. If you can keep the relationship then it makes admin a slight bit easier. For example if you do an ls and get 4 drwxrwxr-x. 2 108 108 4096 Feb 23 2015 foo.bar you know the owner/group are set to a reasonable value as opposed to 4 drwxr-xr-x. 7 1000 500 4096 Dec 14 2012 bar.baz where you now need to lookup the GID for UID 1000. On 01/11/2016 03:30 AM, William Park wrote:
Just curious...
I noticed that distros tend to create user account with unique UID and unique GID (and usually both are the same id). For example, UID=1000 and GID=1000.
What is the reason behind it?
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