Re: rawhide report: 20060308 changes

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram fedoraproject org>]

Ralf Ertzinger wrote:

> Hi.
>
> On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 03:26:05 -0500, Build System wrote:
>
>  
>
> > - use an assigned uid/gid, do not loop over user ids looking for a
> > free one
> >    
>
> I have often wondered why useradd does not have built in support for
> stuff like this. From time to time I'd like to do something like
> "add a user, I do not care about the UID, but it has to be larger than
> X (and, optionally, less than Y)".
>  
Useradd has -r and groupadd  has -r and -g options in Fedora/RHEL to do 
similar things. check the man page for them for additional details. Does 
that serve your purpose?


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Rahul