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Old 03-17-2011
Help reserving UID ranges?
We have recently merged 2 old systems onto a newer Itanium platform. As part of this work we merged the password files and assigned new UID's beginning from 1000. I have a user add script that admins can use to add a user, however this assigns the next available UIB (in the low 100's) rather than 1000 upwards.
Does anyone know how I can either reserve UID's 1 - 1000, or script so the useradd only adds from the next available UID above 1000?
Thanks in advance,
Tom.
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Old 03-17-2011
Since it can be done using SAM, I would suggest you configure SAM in such a way then look at SAM logs to see how it is done...
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Old 03-17-2011
How is it done in SAM? You can view by range but not block UID groups?
Thanks Tom.
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Old 03-18-2011
Can you post your "user add" script.

The unix HP-UX "useradd" command will take a "-u UID" parameter. It is not difficult to modify a script which invokes "useradd" to ensure that the UID is one UID greater than the highest UID in /etc/passwd.
If this was a virgin system you'd need to create an account with a UID of 1000 to seed the process.
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