Migrate users from Centos 5.4 to 6.5

[Kenneth Brody]

On 10/23/2014 12:02 PM, tob at b-e-s-t.com wrote:
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> Thanks.  Your response made me actually create a new record rather than simply view records I had brought over.   And even the new ones use the # rather than the login name so it must be the call from filepro.  Any ideas on how to correct?

(I assume that @ID also shows just a number?)

Check with the CentOS 6 release notes regarding compatibility issues with 
CentOS 5 binaries, especially related to "getpwuid()".

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at spamcop.net>
> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 10:29am
> To: tob at b-e-s-t.com, filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: Migrate users from Centos 5.4 to 6.5
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> On 10/23/2014 7:03 AM, tob at b-e-s-t.com wrote:
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>> I am testing this on a practice box using a doc from cyberciti.biz.
>> Everything went as planned except when I access a filepro record it comes
>> up with the number of the user,as in '#611' for example, instead of that
>> user name stored in /etc/passwd. A record created by root comes up as #0
>> while on the 5.4 system it show 'root' as the data in @cb. Any ideas as
>> to what am I missing or how to correct this?
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> If even root is coming up as "#0", then it sounds as if there is some
> compatibility problem with the getpwuid() system call.
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Kenneth Brody