Well, I would recommend checking the facts first. What there is in login.defs is following (read the comment).
<cut> # # Min/max values for automatic uid selection in useradd # UID_MIN 1000 UID_MAX 60000 <cut> I.e. the automatic selection of the new UID should use these values, but it does not define any limits for manual selection. The actual UID is a 32bit value (it used to be 16bits long ago). Also in many corporate environments large (>100000) UID values are used to create a very large continuous UID space (basically to avoid the nobody at 65534). -- problem with big uids in "Users and Groups" tool https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/303997 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
