Filepro-list Digest, Vol 183, Issue 2

Thu Apr 4 11:25:06 PDT 2019

This might be more then it is worth, You could create a filePro file with the with the old user #'s and names.  In auto processing get the value in @cb and do a lookup to the filePro file to get the name and display that in field cb or whatever temporary field value you have available.

This may avoid a lot of system issues and gets around the issue you are having.

Just a suggestion.

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting

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> 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)
> >>    2. Re: issue with @cb @ub showing UID# not name (Fairlight)
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> >> Message: 1
> >> 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->
> >>
> >>
> >> 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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