On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 3:04 PM Jaco Kroon <j...@uls.co.za> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Looking at the new eclasses for acct-user and acct-group.
>
> These enforce that a group and user id should be set.
>
> This is not a requirement for enewuser nor enewgroup.
The new eclasses require you to set a fixed id, but they do not
enforce that the id is available by default. If the id is taken
already, it will allocate a new one.
User/group 0 is pretty much guaranteed to always exist, so you could
set ACCT_{GROUP,USER}_ID=0 to trigger the desired behavior.
If you're feeling crazy, this will get you a random assignment between
1 and 999, with the same fallback logic.
ACCT_GROUP_ID=$(( RANDOM % 998 + 1 ))
