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From: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier ROBERT)
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Subject: Re: New adduser script
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
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> Can it handle sites like freefall, where different groups of people
> get assigned to the end of some range?  (e.g hackers get the next 6xx
> uid, WC staff get 2xxx, archive maintainers get 1xxx, etc).

That  yes. In the groupdefs file there are classes for each group.

> kind of a pain in the butt.  You need to find the next free uid in the
> 600 range (for 99% of new users, anyway), then create the account,
> then make a corresponding group id, then create the REAL home dir in
> /a, then chown it to <user>.<user>, then create a symlink to it in
> /home.

That model no. Creating a group per user is not currently supported. I
guess that would be a major change in the script's philosophy (sp?).

> I'll agree that it's probably something of a special case, but it's not
> a bad model, either.

I'll see if I can incorporate that kind of behaviour without breaking
the rest. At the time a group (in /etc/group) = a range of uids. Holes
in the range are found and reused.

Maybe executing a special script at the end of the general one, site-init.pl
or some kind. Hmmm I'll think over that.
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT   -=- FreeBSD: the daemon is FREE! -=-   roberto@FreeBSD.ORG
      FreeBSD keltia 2.1.0-Development #2: Thu Dec 29 20:28:18  1994
             roberto@keltia:/usr/src/sys/compile/KELTIA ctm#235