Re: Where is the next uid from adduser pulled from?

2007-12-17 Thread n j
Tried looking for the adduser program, but could not find adduser.c Just to point out that adduser is a shell script, as witnessed by: # file /usr/sbin/adduser /usr/sbin/adduser: Bourne shell script text executable and the response to the original question - how does the system generate new

Re: Where is the next uid from adduser pulled from?

2007-12-13 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 12 December 2007 20:04, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 12:00:06PM -0500, Francisco Reyes wrote: I have scripts to add new users. However, after that any port that installs a user creates it with a UID after the ones I made. For example I want all employees

Re: Where is the next uid from adduser pulled from?

2007-12-12 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 12:00:06PM -0500, Francisco Reyes wrote: I have scripts to add new users. However, after that any port that installs a user creates it with a UID after the ones I made. For example I want all employees to have uids starting at 5000, but I would like too port

Re: Where is the next uid from adduser pulled from?

2007-12-12 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Francisco Reyes wrote: I have scripts to add new users. However, after that any port that installs a user creates it with a UID after the ones I made. For example I want all employees to have uids starting at 5000, but I would like too port installed uids to be 2000 and up. After I add some