Bug#482069: adduser: If uid 999 exists, next system uid will be between 0-99

> if first_avail_uid returns -1 (which is indicating that in the range > FIRST_SYS_UID and LAST_SYS_UID there was no free uid), adduser will stop. > I don't see any overflow which causes adduser to start at uid 0 again. > > Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't get the problem. Hi, I didn't

Bug#482069: adduser: If uid 999 exists, next system uid will be between 0-99

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 05:57:50PM +0200, Durk Strooisma wrote: > > If, for whatever reason, there's a system user having uid 999, adduser > will look for a uid starting from 0 when a new system user is created. I guess the relevant part starts at line 387 off adduser elsif (!defined($new_ui

Bug#482069: adduser: If uid 999 exists, next system uid will be between 0-99

Package: adduser Version: 3.107 Severity: normal If, for whatever reason, there's a system user having uid 999, adduser will look for a uid starting from 0 when a new system user is created. In most cases it will find a free uid between 0-99, which is allocated by the Debian project and for that