@ub & @cb issues

[Kenneth Brody]

Walter Vaughan wrote:
[...]
> Hum...
> from /etc/passwd on my 16B
> [...]
> who::18:18::/bin:/bin/who
> profile::202:50:Profile Administrator:/appl/pf:/bin/sh
> 
> That seems weird. This was the development machine.
> The production 6000 that had files on it that are still in
> use today died in 1989 or so.
> 
> I've always kept filepro user as 200:50
> 
> Ken'd know what's the "default"

As I recall, it used to be the highest UID plus 1, with a minimum of
200 to prevent ending up with a system-UID on new systems.  Now, I
believe it is basically the same thing, but it ignores current UIDs
greater than around 65000 when determining the highest, to prevent
"nobody"'s 65535 (and some other 65534 that we've seen) from messing
up the calculation.

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