Adduser devel - May 2010 - Bug#453086: adduser --system --group should ensure uid==gid

Hi,

It seems that nothing is moving about this bug that is imho currently
misclassified as a wishlist.

The documentation of "man adduser" still clearly says what Fab pasted:
"--group
When  combined with --system, a group with the same name and ID as the
system user is created."
For me it seems like a real problem if the program doesn''t follow
it''s
own documentation. So this is a bug.

To overcome the UID/GID exhaustion problem the behavior could be like this:
- use same UID=GID where there is still room in the system ID range
(cross-section of IDs for SYSTEM_UID and SYSTEM_GID)
- else fall back to current behavior (assign first free UID and GID)

This way the amount of usable system UIDs and GIDs will remain the same
and additionally it would be more compliant with the documentation and
would look nicer.

  gw

* GW <gwSPAM.debian at tnode.com>, 2010-05-02
05:19:
>The documentation of "man adduser" still clearly says what Fab
pasted:
>"--group
>When  combined with --system, a group with the same name and ID as the
>system user is created."
>For me it seems like a real problem if the program doesn''t follow
it''s
>own documentation. So this is a bug.
The attached patch fixes documentation inconsistency.

-- 
Piotr Lewandowski
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On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 03:37:09PM +0200, Piotr Lewandowski
wrote:
> The attached patch fixes documentation inconsistency.
I have committed this to svn, which improves the situation, while the
real issue remains open.

Greetings
Marc

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