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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
Cc: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] A script to pick next free UID/GID for your acct-* packages
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2021 19:23:33
Message-Id: ulfbxvydx@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] A script to pick next free UID/GID for your acct-* packages by Mike Gilbert
1 >>>>> On Tue, 09 Feb 2021, Mike Gilbert wrote:
2
3 >> Mh - so the obvious first feature request for the script is to also
4 >> output Free UID+GID pairs. Counting them manually in your screenshot
5 >> I get 36.
6 >>
7 >> That's not a whole lot; just 7% of 500.
8
9 > The output was abbreviated. Here is the full output for entries where
10 > both ids are FREE.
11
12 Still, it's not an infinite resource, and maybe we shouldn't waste a
13 pair if only one of UID or GID is needed?
14
15 Ulrich

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