@ub & @cb issues

[Tim Fischer]

Bill,

You lost me there.  What do you mean "change their UID to the missing one"?
What's the missing one?

We did find something though - The old UIDs (SCO) were 4 digits while the
new UIDs (Solaris) are 5 digits.  Would that make any difference? 

-Tim

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf 
> Of Bill Vermillion
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 3:50 PM
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> Subject: Re: @ub & @cb issues
> 
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 03:33:56PM -0400, Tim Fischer thus spoke:
> 
> > The database was moved, however the only users we're seeing 
> the issue 
> > with are newly created (on the new server). All old users work fine 
> > and, just to make things even more weird, some new users work fine.
> 
> Then find the user with the problem and change their UID to 
> the missing one.  However, anyting they created up to now 
> will start showing the current UID.  In that case you can 
> make a user with the old UID, and you could make it with no 
> password, and give it
> a name.   If it were your login [as an example] you could make an
> ID called 'oldtim'
> 
> Setting up new machines and migrating data means you have to 
> sychronize the password file to have the same UID/GID, and 
> different OSes start with lower default UID's than others.
> 
> Bill
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