Re: The story behind UPG and umask.
On Wed, 26 May 2010 23:43:12 +0100, Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org>
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.
I am not a very good friend of just counting. I would try to somehow
hash the user name into the UID since this will - at least on systems
with only a handful of users - enhance the chance that the same user
name will get the same UID on different systems.
I would love adduser to do that, but I can live without that.
Greetings
Marc
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