@ub & @cb issues

[Tim Fischer]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com 
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf 
> Of Jay R. Ashworth
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 3:59 PM
> To: FilePro List
> Subject: Re: @ub & @cb issues
> 
> 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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Actually, there is a limit of 2147483647.  This can be bypassed, if need be.

-Tim