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.
Hi, I didn't
Package: adduser
Version: 3.107
Severity: normal
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.
In most cases it will find a free uid between 0-99, which is allocated
by the Debian project and for
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)
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