Filepro-list Digest, Vol 183, Issue 2

Wed Apr 3 04:21:25 PDT 2019

Also to clarify, I am referring to newly created records after migrating to
Ubuntu show userid#.

I understand old records will show # if they cannot resolve a name attached
to that #.

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Peter R. Martin

On Wed, Apr 3, 2019, 7:18 AM Peter Martin <peter.rene.martin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Good morning Richard,
>
> My issue is not bringing over /etc/passed. I did not. I created new user
> names using the #s Ubuntu issued.
>
> My issue is that @cb & @ud display as a userid # & not as username spelled
> out.
>
> In both SCO & RH always showed username spelled out & un Ubuntu, It only
> shows userid #. I would like to show the username spelled out.
>
> So the magic question:
>
> Where/when does filepro get & store @cb & @ub. Should probably be as
> simple as changing the environment variable where filepro is pulling the
> data from linux.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter
>
> sent from my Droid
> Peter R. Martin
>
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>>    1. Re: issue with @cb @ub showing UID# not name (Richard D. Williams)
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>> Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2019 10:20:00 -0500
>> From: "Richard D. Williams" <richard at appgrp.net>
>> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
>> Subject: Re: issue with @cb @ub showing UID# not name
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>> Peter,
>>
>> The user name is shown via the user id in the /etc/passwd file.
>> If you did not bring those users from the old RH system as the same
>> numbers, FP can not determine which user name to show.
>>
>> Ubuntu probably starts user id numbers at a higher number than RH.
>> If you still have access to the RH you might be able to bring just those
>> users over from the /etc/passwd and the /etc/shadow.
>> I would be careful, as different versions of Linux use different user id
>> ranges.
>>
>> This is *not* a procedure to be done by a beginner. You could wreak your
>> whole system.
>>
>> Richard D. Williams
>>
>> On 4/1/2019 7:55 PM, Peter Martin via Filepro-list wrote:
>> > Recently migrated from RH to Ubuntu. All records created after migration
>> > show @cb & @ub as a user ID# from /etc/passwd.  Under RH is would show
>> the
>> > user name.
>> > I understand that older records will only show user ID# b/c the ID#s do
>> not
>> > match (older RH allowed lower#s & Ubuntu starts users at 1000).
>> > Anyway to go back to showing the user name?  FP version 5.0.15.
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>>
>>
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>> Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2019 12:03:49 -0400
>> From: Fairlight <fairlite at fairlite.com>
>> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
>> Subject: Re: issue with @cb @ub showing UID# not name
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>> Another alternative would be to write something which takes the old and
>> new
>> password files, creates a mapping between the old and new UIDs for each
>> user, then goes through every key and data segment and updates the
>> appropriate values based on that mapping relationship.
>>
>> Also not something to be done by a beginner.
>>
>> m->
>>
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>> On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 10:20:00AM -0500, Richard D. Williams via
>> Filepro-list thus spoke:
>> > Peter,
>> >
>> > The user name is shown via the user id in the /etc/passwd file.
>> > If you did not bring those users from the old RH system as the same
>> > numbers, FP can not determine which user name to show.
>> >
>> > Ubuntu probably starts user id numbers at a higher number than RH.
>> > If you still have access to the RH you might be able to bring just
>> > those users over from the /etc/passwd and the /etc/shadow.
>> > I would be careful, as different versions of Linux use different
>> > user id ranges.
>> >
>> > This is *not* a procedure to be done by a beginner. You could wreak
>> > your whole system.
>> >
>> > Richard D. Williams
>> >
>> > On 4/1/2019 7:55 PM, Peter Martin via Filepro-list wrote:
>> > >Recently migrated from RH to Ubuntu. All records created after
>> migration
>> > >show @cb & @ub as a user ID# from /etc/passwd.  Under RH is would show
>> the
>> > >user name.
>> > >I understand that older records will only show user ID# b/c the ID#s
>> do not
>> > >match (older RH allowed lower#s & Ubuntu starts users at 1000).
>> > >Anyway to go back to showing the user name?  FP version 5.0.15.
>> > >
>> > >Thanks
>> > >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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