Package: adduser Version: 3.100 According to the policy, UIDs and GIDs less than 100 are the same on all Debian systems and come from the base-passwd package. The adduser man page says adduser and addgroup "are friendlier front ends to tools like useradd, groupadd and usermod programs, choosing Debian policy conformant UID and GID values --." However, the programs don't enforce this policy item or remind about it in the documentation.
The consequences of this bug in the worst case are the consequences of having non-conformant IDs on the system. Those in turn depend on the assumptions made based on the policy item. I propose the following changes: 1. When adduser or addgroup is going to add an id < 100, it prints a warning message about policy to stderr: "Warning! According to Debian Policy, system administators shouldn't create UIDs < 100." 2. The adduser man page excerpt says "by default choosing" instead of "choosing". 3. /etc/adduser.conf and the adduser.conf man page include in their documentation of FIRST_SYSTEM_UID the note: "Please note that system software may assume that UIDs less than 100 are unallocated." -- -- Trying to catch me? Just follow up my Electric Fingerprints -- To help you: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.iki.fi/Tuukka.Hastrup/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]