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Re: useradd & user ids


On Apr 24 15:01, Owen Rees wrote:
> --On 21 April 2006 17:18 +0200 Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
> >You should see the RIDs in big installations with > 100.000 users...
> 
> [...]
> 
> >You didn't have a look into http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html
> >lately, I assume.  The RID is mentioned right at the start. ;-)
> 
> I did not see any mention of 10000 there 

I never claimed that.

> 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.


Corinna

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