On Sunday, September 1, 2002, at 01:53 , John W. Krahn wrote:
[..]
> The only UID that should be above 60000 is the user "nobody" whose UID
> is 65534.
you know and I know - what would be 'reasonable'
and what happens....
[..]
>
> while ( my( undef, undef, $uid ) = getpwent ) {
> $highestuid = $uid if $highestuid < $uid and $uid < $skip;
> }
>
> print 'The next available UID is ', ++$highestuid, "\n";
Stylish and elegant as ever,
but doesn't using getpwent also leave
open going all the way out to say NIS/NIS+
rather than localizing on the host?
I present that, since a friend is in the
process of decrufting a site where their
NIS/NIS+ "integration strategy" has, well,
"issues"...
ciao
drieux
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