On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 05:57:50PM +0200, Durk Strooisma wrote: > > If, for whatever reason, there's a system user having uid 999, adduser > will look for a uid starting from 0 when a new system user is created.
I guess the relevant part starts at line 387 off adduser
elsif (!defined($new_uid) && !$make_group_also) {
$new_uid = &first_avail_uid($config{"first_system_uid"},
$config{"last_system_uid"});
if ($new_uid == -1) {
print STDERR "$0: ";
printf STDERR gtx("No UID is available in the range %d-%d
(FIRST_SYS_UID -
LAST_SYS_UID).\n"),$config{"first_system_uid"},$config{"last_system_uid"};
dief (gtx("The user `%s' was not created.\n"),$new_name);
}
if first_avail_uid returns -1 (which is indicating that in the range
FIRST_SYS_UID and LAST_SYS_UID there was no free uid), adduser will stop.
I don't see any overflow which causes adduser to start at uid 0 again.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't get the problem.
Jörg
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