Re: Where is the next uid from adduser pulled from?
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 UIDs - is best answered by examining the get_nextuid () function inside adduser script. Regards, -- Nino ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where is the next uid from adduser pulled from?
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 to have uids starting at 5000, but I would like too port installed uids to be 2000 and up. After I add some users (ie say last user is 5008), the next port that installs a user and doesn't specify uid.. then will get 5009. Tried looking for the adduser program, but could not find adduser.c It's pw(8) that selects default uids and it just takes the last one (numerically) and uses the next one. Create a placeholder user with uid 5000 and let ports use uids 5000+, but when creating new users, specify uids manually (both pw and adduser allow that). Alternatively, create/edit /etc/pw.conf including minuid 2000 maxuid 4999 reuseuids yes This will cause automatic uses of pw(8) (such as port installations) to use uids between 2000 and 4999, and to ``fill in the gaps''. When adding a user by hand, use pw -C /dev/null to tell pw to ignore pw.conf(5) and get the default behaviour (which is to use the uid one higher than the highest ever used). adduser(8) should just DTRT, but you can make sure by adding to the flags -u uid_start which will use the next available uid after uid_start (which it identifies by testing each uid in turn for existence, not by just using pw usernext). Jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Where is the next uid from adduser pulled from?
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 users (ie say last user is 5008), the next port that installs a user and doesn't specify uid.. then will get 5009. Tried looking for the adduser program, but could not find adduser.c Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where is the next uid from adduser pulled from?
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 installed uids to be 2000 and up. After I add some users (ie say last user is 5008), the next port that installs a user and doesn't specify uid.. then will get 5009. Tried looking for the adduser program, but could not find adduser.c It's pw(8) that selects default uids and it just takes the last one (numerically) and uses the next one. Create a placeholder user with uid 5000 and let ports use uids 5000+, but when creating new users, specify uids manually (both pw and adduser allow that). Good luck! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where is the next uid from adduser pulled from?
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 users (ie say last user is 5008), the next port that installs a user and doesn't specify uid.. then will get 5009. Tried looking for the adduser program, but could not find adduser.c /usr/src/usr.sbin/pw Ports call 'pw add user x', and pw add group y' -- Philip M. Gollucci ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) o:703.549.2050x206 Senior System Admin - Riderway, Inc. http://riderway.com / http://ridecharge.com 1024D/EC88A0BF 0DE5 C55C 6BF3 B235 2DAB B89E 1324 9B4F EC88 A0BF Work like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt, and dance like nobody's watching. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
