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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 15:05:41 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: uid > 64k
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On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 12:50:01PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> Couldn't you just keep track of the uids and ensure that you didn't
>> duplicate any?
>
>Yes, absolutely.
>However there is no guarantee that users won't call separately mkpasswd -l 
>and mkpasswd -d, or another mkpasswd -d other_domain, or mkpasswd -d -u
>It would be desirable to return the same uid in all these cases.

But why not just record whatever is already in /etc/passwd?  Subsequent calls
are just going to be appending to it, right?

cgf