On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 16:40, Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey at buc.com> wrote: > 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 > This also does not tell me how useradd knows that on this system at this time the highest UID assigned to a user is 20015. It will assign 20016 to the next user even though some dim bulb gave a use a UID of 4294967294 (how the hell that user can log in with a UID out of range is beyond me unless it gets truncated)... I have been able to use things like these 2 examples (cat /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f3 | sort -n | tail -2 | head -1 in this case) but I want to get the next UID from the system not by parsing /etc/passwd John -- John Kennedy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20101013/c836db28/attachment-0004.html>