On 10/13/2010 4:22 PM, Terry Polzin wrote: > On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 20:09 +0000, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >>> Is there an equivalent in CentOS? >> cat /etc/passwd |cut -d ":" -f 3 |sort -n NEXTUID=`expr $LASTUID + 1` >> >> ;) > LASTUID=`cat /etc/passwd |grep -v nologin|cut -d ":" -f 3 |sort -n | > tail -1`; NEXTUID=`expr $LASTUID + 1`; echo $NEXTUID That assumes the highest UID number has a login shell... -- Bowie