Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 5/9] user.eclass: Die if no free UID/GID is found

[Jaco Kroon]

Hi,

Why not utilize -r or --system as per useradd(8) in order to add system 
users?

The limits for the allocated user ids comes from /etc/login.defs.

Kind Regards,
Jaco

On 2019/05/30 14:50, Michał Górny wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o>
> ---
>   eclass/user.eclass | 2 ++
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/eclass/user.eclass b/eclass/user.eclass
> index 1ffeaae29569..b16c4c6d69b7 100644
> --- a/eclass/user.eclass
> +++ b/eclass/user.eclass
> @@ -160,6 +160,7 @@ enewuser() {
>   		for ((euid = 101; euid <= 999; euid++)); do
>   			[[ -z $(egetent passwd ${euid}) ]] && break
>   		done
> +		[[ ${euid} -le 999 ]] || die "${FUNCNAME}: no free UID found"
>   	fi
>   	opts+=( -u ${euid} )
>   	einfo " - Userid: ${euid}"
> @@ -344,6 +345,7 @@ enewgroup() {
>   			for ((egid = 101; egid <= 999; egid++)) ; do
>   				[[ -z $(egetent group ${egid}) ]] && break
>   			done
> +			[[ ${egid} -le 999 ]] || die "${FUNCNAME}: no free GID found"
>   		fi
>   	}
>