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From: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>
To: Studded <Studded@dal.net>
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Subject: Re: Setting default starting uid in adduser.conf
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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.

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