[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#147280: Assigning UIDs over 65536 should not be a bug anymore

[Dariush Pietrzak,,,]

> tags 147280 wontfix
> retitle 147280 [TO CLOSE 20050405] passwd: newusers finds max userid as base - on debian there is nobody user with 65534 uid
> thanks
> 
> As far as I know, assigning UIDs over 65534 is no more a problem, so I
> suppose that the bug you reported should now be closed.
> Do you have any objection to this?
 I think that the original problem, with treating max userid as base,
should be fixed. One can easily imagine someone creating uid==2**32,
besides such behaviour is a bit unelegant.
 It should search for lowest available userid, or at least this behaviour
should be configurable.

regards, Eyck
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