On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 10:46:47AM +1200, Andrew Tarr wrote:
> Now, I'm not quite sure ATM how I got 'ajt' into the system... I may
> have copied lines from my old /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. Was that
> maybe not a good idea? I wanted to preserve the uid, because otherwise
> the uids on all my files would be wrong, but I see just now you can
> call adduser with an option to have a particular one.
It's not a good idea unless you fully understand how the password and
group databases are handled on that particular OS/distribution.
-mjg
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