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Re: The story behind UPG and umask.



On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 23:43 +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Roger Leigh said:
> > How will adduser cope with group addition; does it skip UIDs until
> > it finds an unused unique UID/GID pair?

> That certainly is the only approach that makes sense - it has the
> benefit of simplicity, if not elegance.

Agreed, but why not make the decision to use UPG explicit by setting
"UPG = True" in a suitable configuration file in addition to each of the
discussed heuristics?
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