ID Numbering in Group and Passwd

[Robin Laing]

Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 10:46 -0700, Robin Laing wrote:
> 
>>Dave Brown wrote:

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> 
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> I think that you will a number of these 'defaults' can be adjusted by
> editing:
> 
> /etc/default/useradd
> /etc/login.defs
> 
> Craig
> 
> 

Hey, I learned something today.

In /etc/login.defs,

#
# Min/max values for automatic uid selection in useradd
#
UID_MIN                   500
UID_MAX                 60000

#
# Min/max values for automatic gid selection in groupadd
#
GID_MIN                   500
GID_MAX                 60000

may solve the whole mess.

It may be a nice idea to change these defaults to prevent this 
headache in the future.  I will play with this at home and then submit 
an enhancement request if it works as I would like.

Thank you for the info.

Robin