Hi Aaron On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 11:37:28PM -0600, Aaron Hall wrote: > Hello, on a local system I wanted to fix the problem talked about in > this bug, and for us, the "naive" approach of selecting a UID one higher > than the highest currently in the range was good enough. I locally > modified adduser on my system to do that, and I created a patch against > 3.80 in case it would be at all useful.
Thank you for the patch. > The patch uses a "NO_REUSE_IDS" option, which activates the new behavior "NO_REUSE_IDS" sounds a bit strange, I'd rather call it "REUSE_IDS" and set it to "yes" by default. > I am curious about the state-file approach, though; if that is > introduced with a new version of adduser, what do you do about "holes" > in the passwd file that existed prior to installation of that new > version? Maybe do something similar to the naive approach once, to > pre-fill the state file? That would be the only feasible solution. Jörg -- Was denen einen ihr Watergate, ist den anderen ihr Firstgate. - Thomas Bliessner, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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