[Adduser-devel] Bug#425426: Bug#425426: Bug#425426: allow creation of user accounts with dublicate uid

[Stephen Gran]

This one time, at band camp, Nico Golde said:
> Hi,
> * Joerg Hoh <joerg at joerghoh.de> [2007-05-22 01:23]:
> > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 07:32:25PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote:
> > > 
> > > Why not? If you want to have a second root user without 
> > > password, homedirectory and login shell you need it. 
> > 
> > Why not use sudo?
> 
> Cause I don't need it.
> 
> > > And I 
> > > mean technically there is no problem with that. In some 
> > > cases you can't use root for a specific task and you don't 
> > > want to use suid 0 binaries cause they might be exploited by 
> > > other users. And I mean useradd enables this, why not then?
> > 
> > Then you just need useradd. 
> 
> Then I can't use the features of adduser ;)

adduser exists for two reasons: first, to provide a policy layer over
the normal tools like useradd, and second, to make it easier than those
tools oridnarily do to manage users.  Your request feels like it breaks
the first part, which is why we're not keen on doing it.
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