lost and found problem

[David Fletcher]

All distributions assign a number to each user - if you look under User 
Management in the System Settings application, the UID column shows this 
number. It can be a problem though, that different distributions have a 
different starting number. Kubuntu starts at 1000, but I think Fedora starts 
at 500. Suse might also start at 500. This number, not your name, is what 
identifies your files as belonging to you, so even if you unpack your own 
files into your own new home directory, the system will think that they don't 
belong to you unless you correctly set the User ID.

One of my friends, who is a BSD enthusiast, and uses many different computers, 
has his own solution to this problem. He always sets his User ID number to a 
high value that is unlikely to occur on systems with anything up to a few 
hundred users, and always uses the same number, something like 2345. That way 
he can use his own files on any system without having to mess about setting 
the User ID on them.

Dave

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