On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:14:04PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > > I will gladly accept a patch which manually parses adduser.conf and > passes said information to useradd, but I don't care enough to change > it. In my mind, the fact that a required package is dragging in > libuuid1, and we don't want to effectively promote adduser to > "required" is enough of a justification to override the normal > "should" recommendation in debian-policy. It is, after all a > "should", not a "must". > > - Ted
Okay. My problem is that the uid/gid allocation policy of useradd is quite broken. It takes the highest uid in the target range, adds 1, and uses that. I have configured adduser not to use uids between 500 and 1000, and useradd inevitably uses IDs in that range. Either using adduser if its installed or reading adduser.conf if it exists would solve my problem. I'll send a patch for the latter in a moment. Thanks, -- Michael Spang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
