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Date:      Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:06:54 +0100
From:      "n j" <nino80@gmail.com>
To:        "Francisco Reyes" <lists@stringsutils.com>
Cc:        Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Where is the next uid from adduser pulled from?
Message-ID:  <92bcbda50712171206g132754d8ke206e82d32315153@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <cone.1197478806.593699.45285.1000@zoraida.natserv.net>
References:  <cone.1197478806.593699.45285.1000@zoraida.natserv.net>

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> Tried looking for the adduser program, but could not find adduser.c

Just to point out that adduser is a shell script, as witnessed by:

# file /usr/sbin/adduser
/usr/sbin/adduser: Bourne shell script text executable

and the response to the original question - how does the system
generate new UIDs - is best answered by examining the get_nextuid ()
function inside adduser script.

Regards,
-- 
Nino



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