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Operating Systems AIX UIDs being overwritten immediately
# 1  
Old 05-07-2007
UIDs being overwritten immediately
We have a problem where we delete a user and their associated UID gets dumped back in the UID pool. The if we immediately create a another (new) user, AIX reuses the last UID, the one that was just released. This is causing a problem when reports are being generated because the new users name is now associate with ALL previous transactions linked to that UID.

Is there a way to tell AIX to NOT use the last released UID?

So to speak: currently its "Last release, First use" and we need "Last release, last use".

We are running AIX 4.3.3
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Old 05-07-2007
Don't delete the user until you don't care if the uid is reused or not. Just lock the account and delete the files.
# 3  
Old 05-08-2007
mkuser command can accept "id=<number>" . So you could find out what is the next uniq number and give it there while creating the user.

i.e.
mkuser "id=1002" kapilraj
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