[gentoo-dev] [PATCH] user.eclass: Allocate next free UID or GID from 999 downwards.

[Ulrich Müller]

Fixed UIDs and GIDs are mostly located in the low range, therefore
going downwards from 999 to 101 will minimise collisions between fixed
and dynamically allocated IDs.

Note that on Linux and other targets using "groupadd -r" from
sys-apps/shadow, GIDs are already allocated that way implicitly.

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@g.o>
---
 eclass/user.eclass | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/eclass/user.eclass b/eclass/user.eclass
index fdf98caa6099..6563a03a1505 100644
--- a/eclass/user.eclass
+++ b/eclass/user.eclass
@@ -157,10 +157,10 @@ enewuser() {
 		euid="next"
 	fi
 	if [[ ${euid} == "next" ]] ; then
-		for ((euid = 101; euid <= 999; euid++)); do
+		for ((euid = 999; euid >= 101; euid--)); do
 			[[ -z $(egetent passwd ${euid}) ]] && break
 		done
-		[[ ${euid} -le 999 ]] || die "${FUNCNAME}: no free UID found"
+		[[ ${euid} -ge 101 ]] || die "${FUNCNAME}: no free UID found"
 	fi
 	opts+=( -u ${euid} )
 	einfo " - Userid: ${euid}"
@@ -318,10 +318,10 @@ enewgroup() {
 	_enewgroup_next_gid() {
 		if [[ ${egid} == *[!0-9]* ]] ; then
 			# Non numeric
-			for ((egid = 101; egid <= 999; egid++)) ; do
+			for ((egid = 999; egid >= 101; egid--)) ; do
 				[[ -z $(egetent group ${egid}) ]] && break
 			done
-			[[ ${egid} -le 999 ]] || die "${FUNCNAME}: no free GID found"
+			[[ ${egid} -ge 101 ]] || die "${FUNCNAME}: no free GID found"
 		fi
 	}
 
-- 
2.22.0