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Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:06:04 -0600 (CST)
From: Jay Nelson <jdn@qiv.com>
To: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>
cc: Studded <Studded@dal.net>,
        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Setting default starting uid in adduser.conf
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Wouldn't it be simpler to change the variable "uid_start" in
/etc/adduser.conf? 

-- Jay

On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Dean Hollister wrote:

    > On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Studded wrote:
    > 
    > > 	I personally hacked the script. /usr/sbin/adduser is just a perl
    > > script, open it up in your favorite editor and change the line that
    > > says, $uid_start = 1000 # new users get this uid
    > 
    > This works once, then it resets back to 1000. Its damn annoying, how do
    > you set it to a userid you want, and make it increment from that uid?
    > 
    > Regards,
    > 
    > d.
    > 
    > +-------------------------------------------------------+
    > | Dean Hollister,           | dean@odyssey.apana.org.au |  
    > | Perth, Western Australia. | deanh@iinet.net.au        |
    > +-------------------------------------------------------+
    >