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.