Thanks to Richard Rogers and Tony Hoffman
The solution is to use the usermod program to set the value of the
next user id. For example:
# usermod -D -x next_uid=500
The result can be verified with a command such as:
# usermod -D
The next user id is independent from the minimum and maximum user ids.
The dxaccounts program can't set the next user id value directly. There
is a similar command for managing the next group id:
# groupmod -D -x next_gid=500
Note that the next user id need not be the next available id. The
dxaccounts program will start from the next user id and scan forward
looking for a free value when creating a new account.
My original question follows:
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When using dxaccounts I desire to set the range of acceptable user ids to
something other than the default. In particular, I want to start my ids at
500. However, when I change the "minimum user id" box in the
Options|General dialog and then dismiss the dialog, I get the error "Next
user id is less than the minimum value." Here I assume the "next user id"
refers to the id that dxaccounts wants to use by default when creating a
new account. This is exactly the entity I want to change, yet because the
next id is out of range, dxaccounts won't accept my new minimum value.
So my question boils down to this: how do I change the "next user id?"
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Peter
pchapin_at_twilight.vtc.vsc.edu
http://twilight.vtc.vsc.edu/~pchapin/
Received on Tue Feb 09 1999 - 22:59:59 NZDT