Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 22:23:44 +0300 (WET) From: Evren Yurtesen <eyurtese@tekniikka.turkuamk.fi> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-bugs-local@be-well.no-ip.com> Cc: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adduser bug Message-ID: <Pine.A41.4.10.10306202222590.30834-100000@bessel.tekniikka.turkuamk.fi> In-Reply-To: <441xxoa9qx.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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Well you can try that, run adduser and start adding a user and stop where it asks you for password. From another terminal add a user, then continue entering password. You will end up having 2 users with the same UID. Evren On 20 Jun 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Evren Yurtesen <eyurtese@tekniikka.turkuamk.fi> writes: > > > I suspect that if 2 people try to use adduser script at the same time, the > > new user added might have the same UID value. ( and probably GID ) > > Cant it be set so that the UID will be looked up from the password file > > when the file is locked or something? So the other adduser user have to > > wait until the file is free? > > Isn't that the way it *already* works? >
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