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To: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>
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Subject: Re: Setting default starting uid in adduser.conf
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Dean Hollister wrote:
> 
> Hiyall,
> 
> Whenever I set the starting uid in adduser.conf, it automatically resets
> back to 1000. How do I set this to my desired setting. Someone mentioned a
> mkdb command before.

	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

Good luck,

Doug