Exam XK0-005 topic 1 question 60 discussion

This answer is wrong, cat out your /etc/login.defs file. those values are in there

linux_admin has it right: A is definitely correct, it's all right here, a quick look into the file shows below: cat /etc/login.defs yields: ... # Min/max values for automatic uid selection in useradd # UID_MIN 1000 UID_MAX 60000 # System accounts SYS_UID_MIN 201 SYS_UID_MAX 999 # # Min/max values for automatic gid selection in groupadd # GID_MIN 1000 GID_MAX 60000 # System accounts SYS_GID_MIN 201 SYS_GID_MAX 999

I can definitely understand why etc/default/useradd would be the answer. The question specifically stated that the users and groups were added "by default".

The /etc/login.defs file is used to set default system-wide settings for new users and groups. This file contains information about user and group creation, such as the default home directory, the default shell, the minimum and maximum UIDs and GIDs, and so on. If the administrator needs to set default values for new users and groups that are created, they would need to make the required changes in the /etc/login.defs file. For example, to set the default home directory for new users to /home/users/, the administrator would add the following line to the file:

Question asks about newly created users . The file to be edited should be /etc/adduser.conf. And below is the section to be edited. # FIRST_[GU]ID to LAST_[GU]ID inclusive is the range of UIDs of dynamically # allocated user accounts/groups. FIRST_UID=1000 LAST_UID=29999 FIRST_GID=1000 LAST_GID=29999

It's A.

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/login.defs.5.html reading default page for login.defs u can find these values written up : " SYS_UID_MAX (number), SYS_UID_MIN (number) Range of user IDs used for the creation of system users by useradd or newusers. "

I dont understand how this can be wrong, correct answer is A, please fix it!

Sorry, I agree with answer A, /etc/login.defs.

Agreed, answer C.