On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Tuukka Hastrup said: > > According to the policy, UIDs and GIDs less than 100 are the same on all > > Debian systems and come from the base-passwd package. The adduser man page > > says adduser and addgroup "are friendlier front ends to tools like > > useradd, groupadd and usermod programs, choosing Debian policy conformant > > UID and GID values --." However, the programs don't enforce this policy > > item or remind about it in the documentation. > > I understand you to be saying that when you override adduser's > default's, it allows you to create a user with uid < 100 ? Is that > correct?
Yes, it provides mechanisms for that and doesn't inform the user of the consequences. That is, as adduser promises to be a friendly front end, it shouldn't expect the local system administrator to know the traps in the Debian Policy. -- -- Trying to catch me? Just follow up my Electric Fingerprints -- To help you: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.iki.fi/Tuukka.Hastrup/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]