"Martin J. Laubach" wrote:

> never do bulk builds, and would rather have the, say, amanda or postgres
> package ask me instead of blindly trying to add a user.

  Especially since addnerd will just pick the highest available user id,
which might not be such a good idea, if you, for example, have a user
"nobody" with an id of 32767 ...

  Cheers
      ,
   Rene