On Wed, 26 May 2010 23:43:12 +0100, Stephen Gran <sg...@debian.org> wrote: >This one time, at band camp, Roger Leigh said: >> How will adduser cope with group addition; does it skip UIDs until >> it finds an unused unique UID/GID pair? > >That certainly is the only approach that makes sense - it has the >benefit of simplicity, if not elegance.
I am not a very good friend of just counting. I would try to somehow hash the user name into the UID since this will - at least on systems with only a handful of users - enhance the chance that the same user name will get the same UID on different systems. I would love adduser to do that, but I can live without that. Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/e1oinnw-0004kv...@swivel.zugschlus.de
