useradd & user ids

[Owen Rees]

--On 24 April 2006 16:50 +0200 Corinna Vinschen wrote:

>> but 'mkpasswd -l -c' offers me an
>> entry with a uid that is my 6-digit RID plus 10000.
>
> The -c option always adds the default offset.  It's not intended for
> local accounts anyway.

It's not just -c that adds the 10000:

  mkpasswd.exe -d $USERDOMAIN -u $USERNAME

also gives a uid that is RID+10000.

The ntsec page mentions using mkpasswd and mkgroup but does not explain how 
the uid or gid is chosen. I think my comment was prompted by the mention of 
numbers of 4 digits earlier in this thread. Having a 6-digit RID for my 
domain account I can see that the uid generation does straightforward 
arithmetic and not some sort of string processing. (Is it really 19106 this 
year? Some people wrote code that thinks so.)


-- 
Owen Rees
Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK



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