On Thursday 08 March 2007 08:34:35 am Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 15:00:41 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> OK, I installed it on FC6/x86_64. I picked the README that suggests:
> > | fedora-useradd 42 -d /home/joe joe
> >
> > will create the user 'joe' having '/home/joe' as homedirectory.
The
> > number '42' specifies an UID which is added to a configured,
> > system-wide base. By default, this base is '300' so that 'joe'
will
> > have the uid 342.
>
> My "joe" landed on uid slot "5214".
In comparison, what do you get for plain "useradd joe"?
For the different behaviour you would first need to enable fedora-usermgmt
via the alternatives system.
i added a user smith who got 10005 which was the next uid after what i got
earlier
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Dennis Gilmore, RHCE