@ub & @cb issues

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 04:04:21PM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> Jay Ashworth cast forth these immortal, mystical words:
> > On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 03:28:40PM -0400, Tim Fischer wrote:
> > > This is a pretty weird one.  For some users, when I have *@cb or *@ub on a
> > > screen, report or browse, instead of showing the user id (sueb or dz - no
> > > more than 3 characters) I get #-552 or something similar.  Has anyone seen
> > > this before?
> > > 
> > > I'm not really sure what kind of info to include - I'm on Solaris 9 running
> > > FP 5.0.13D4.  Happens in d and rreport/clerk.
> > 
> > I rather strongly suspect that Solaris permits unsigned shorts for
> > UID's, and your filePro does not... and that you have users with UID's
> > higher than 32767.
> 
> Solaris 5.7:
> 
> /usr/include/sys/types.h:typedef        int     uid_t;                  /*
> UID type             */
> 
> No idea what they're doing in newer versions.  I note that they updated
> this from a long and have the long marked as "historical" in the comments.
> 
> What you said certainly would make sense for the negative number presented
> though, wouldn't it?

Indeed it would, though why *the solaris version of filePro* wouldn't
get it right is interesting.  Tim tell me that the default starting UID
for Solaris is 60000...

though I suspect that the problem *really* is just that their useradd
utility, like SCO's, builds on after the highest UID it can find in the
password file, with no upper limit... which is sort of dumb design.

Cheers,
-- jra
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