tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx ("Tom 'spot' Callaway") writes: > Someone recently pointed out to me the existence of useradd -r and > groupadd -r (they're Red Hat added functionality). When used, these > commands create the first available UID and GID below UID_MAX and > GID_MAX, as defined in /etc/login.defs. > > This seems to be doing roughly the same thing as fedora-usermgt. fedora-usermgt does more. It can assign the same uid/gid for a user in the entire system. With plain 'useradd -r', users can/will have different ids on different machines which is very bad with NFS mounts or in chroot environments. Enrico
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