Re: OPENBSD system id problems

From: Rob MacGregor (me@privacy.net)
Date: 12/28/01 

From: Rob MacGregor <me@privacy.net>
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 17:34:07 GMT

Xman wrote:

> I have created several id's on the system then was told that I was told to
> remove them so I did then told later on that those were the id's that needed
> to be added so I went back to add them but not a one took. If I change the
> id it will take but I want the id's to be the same on all systems. I was
> told that this is a BSD thing . . . . . Is their a way to reuse ID's on
> the system?

As in USER IDs? Yup, just specify them when creating the user - "man useradd". 

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