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Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Mar 8 08:57:36 UTC 2006
Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
>Hi.
>
>On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 03:26:05 -0500, Build System wrote:
>
>
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>>- use an assigned uid/gid, do not loop over user ids looking for a
>>free one
>>
>>
>
>I have often wondered why useradd does not have built in support for
>stuff like this. From time to time I'd like to do something like
>"add a user, I do not care about the UID, but it has to be larger than
>X (and, optionally, less than Y)".
>
>
Useradd has -r and groupadd has -r and -g options in Fedora/RHEL to do
similar things. check the man page for them for additional details. Does
that serve your purpose?
--
Rahul
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