On Thu, 20 May 2010 00:22:02 +0200 (CEST), Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> wrote: > If an admin which runs out of UIDs in his system modifies > /etc/adduser.conf, will he remember to modify the upper bound in > /etc/profile as well? If these changes are going to be permanent and the discussion about them has been aborted,... couldn't one grep the values out of adduser.conf? Cheers, Chris,