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[David Brown <dmlb2000 AT gmail.com>]

you got it backwards there's two scripts that don't care about [UG]IDs:
useradd
groupadd

the other one is:
adduser

which is a bash script. there isn't a addgroup script, or at least the
spell doesn't install one.

- David

On 8/9/05, Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org> wrote:
> I wasn't thinking of groupadd -- I assumed it did the same thing useradd
> -- if we want to enforce groups to be similar, we'd need to patch some C
> code -- the place that puts users > 1000 appears to be in the useradd
> binary, not the adduser script.
> 
> Seth
> 
> On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 09:08:19AM -0700, David Brown wrote:
> > Maybe this should be documented somewhere
> > cause this is all new stuff to me... (probably more bugs for me)
> >
> > The adduser script does make UIDs >= 1000
> > Is there a addgroup script that is similar, all I know of is groupadd
> > which takes the next available group regardless of GID, which is how I
> > got into the situation I'm in.
> > It doesn't look like there exists one, maybe we could add a 'addgroup'
> > script that would do something similar to adduser.
> >
> > - David Brown
> >
> > On 8/9/05, Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 08:37:25AM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Admin created accounts are supposed to start at 500 (or 1000,
> > > > depending on who you listen to) and system accounts (created by
> > > > packages and such) stay below 500 (or 1000, ditto).
> > >
> > > The init system is patched to kill processes owned by UID >=1000 (it
> > > used to be 100).
> > >
> > > New Users start at 1000.  I suggest we set:
> > >
> > >    0 -  499 System Packages
> > >  500 -  999 Local Administration
> > > 1000 - .... Users
> > >
> > > And then we can expect the system and local administrator to be
> > > responsible for killing their own created processes.
> 
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