Re: deluser on purge (was: Piuparts testing status update)
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Am 2006-11-27 13:02:18, schrieb Michael Stone:
> > On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 05:33:25PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> > >And HOW can I get UID's >=65536 to work?
> > >
> > >I have already tried it in my /etc/passwd and
> > >/etc/group but it gives tonns of errors.
> > >
> > >Any hints?
> >
> > Hint: you need to be more specific about the problems you're having.
>
> I have used addgroup to create a group "foo" with GID 100000 and
> adduser to create a user "bar" with UID 100000 in group "foo".
>
> I can start the xserver but now several programs complain about
> illegal GID/UID. Same for courier-mta and courier-imap using
> authpam
getent passwd foo and getent group foo works, right? If it does, then file
bugs on the broken crap^H^H^H^Happlications.
Debian is supposed to support 31-bit user ids. Anything that does not is
very broken. I don't think it is a release goal or anything, but still...
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