--- Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> uid's 100 - 999 are reserved for the packaging
> system/daemons etc.
> you won't likely have a problem but it would be
> better to migrate to
> debian policy anyway.
Yeah, that's about how I'm thinking about it, too.
Debian goes through so much to assure standard
policies are met that it seems a shame to break policy
on something that is so easy to fix.
> you can just write a small awk script to take the
> accounts from your
> redhat system (delete all of redhat's system
> accounts/groups before
> running it) to create all the users with proper UIDs
> on debian, just a
> quick not thought out script:
>
> for i in `awk -F: rhpwd '{print $1}'`
> do adduser --no-create-home --gecos "$(grep ^$i
> rhpwd | awk -F: '{print $5}')" \
> --home "$(grep ^$i rhpwd | awk -F:'{print $6}')"
> $i ; \
> chsh -s "$(grep ^$i | awk -F: '{print $7}')" $i
> done
>
> another method would be to use sed to change the
> uid/gid.
Thanks for the response and for the script. I'll play
with it, and see what I can do with it.
Belloc
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