What's wrong is it got fixed and I've been used to it
being bad for so long I've just not paid attention.
(Sun never sends entire diffs of their OS to me :)

Thanks for the useful info.

Quoting Volker A. Brandt (vab@bb-c.de):
> > One bump is that:
> > Solaris has no useful user adding script (you have to figure out
> > UID and GIDs *always*.
> 
> # uname -a
> SunOS morgoth 5.8 Generic_111433-02 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60
> 
> # man useradd
> [...]
>      -u uid
>            The UID of the new user.  This  UID  must  be  a  non-
>            negative  decimal  integer  below MAXUID as defined in
>            <sys/param.h>. The UID defaults to the next  available
>            (unique)  number  above  the  highest number currently
>            assigned. For example, if UIDs 100, 105, and  200  are
>            assigned,  the  next  default  UID number will be 201.
> 
> Works fine, at least in a files-only environment.  What's wrong
> with it?
> 
> 
> Regards -- Volker
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