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Bug#1881: Majordomo UID wrong?



Karl Ferguson writes:

>>The preinst calls adduser.  The package is supposed to then use
>>whatever uid/gid it finds in the passwd/group files.
>
>Are you forgetting NIS (Yp) systems?  If I had already a UID 101, and it
>decided to add user "101" would this conflict?

If that happens it's a bug in adduser, which is what chooses the
uid/gid pair, not Majordomo.

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Richard Kettlewell  richard@uk.geeks.org  http://www.elmail.co.uk/staff/richard/


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