@ub & @cb issues

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Bill Vermillion propounded (on Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 04:45:25PM -0400):
| 
| Ah - proof that the SCO is in there :-)
| 
| But doesn't the SCO just start at the last user ID  you've added.
| What happens if you add the typical 'nouser' at the top of the
| list.  You'd surely run out of IDs before long :-)

Unfortunately (IMNSHO), 'scoadmin accounts' assigns a new user the
next uid after the highest one currently in /etc/passwd.

Fortunately (IMNSHO), sysadmsh more sensibly assigns a new user the
lowest unused uid that is greater than MIN_SUGGEST_UID, which is 200.

So I pat myself on the back every time I remember to (manually) install
sysadmsh from the OSR 5.0.x installation CD, given that the default
installation routines will not have included sysadmsh.

-- 
JP