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From: "Gerald T. Freymann" <freymann@eagle.ca>
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Subject: UID's
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 13:48:15 -0400
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How does FreeBSD pick the User ID number?

One of our machines has somehow managed to duplicate UID's twice...

That is to say, UID # 1647 exists twice, and #3515 exists twice.

How does one go about giving the duplicate users unique numbers without
upsetting the apple cart?

Thanks.

gf.



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