@ub & @cb issues

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 04:45:25PM -0400, Bill Vermillion wrote:
> > though I suspect that the problem *really* is just that their
> > useradd utility, like SCO's, builds on after the highest UID it
> > can find in the password file, with no upper limit... which is
> > sort of dumb design.
> 
> 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 :-)

Yep.

FilrPro, in particular, seems to want to be ID 780, or did, on SCO
installs, anyway, and that usually screwed up my ID list.

Cheers,
-- jra
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