Fedora directory users - May 2006 - Re: gid number in posix account!

> 
> what''s really strange is that if you''re adding a person
to multiple groups (really, listing
> multiple memberuid attributes in a posixgroup) you MUST use the text name
of the person.  Even
> though the attr is called member*uid*, if you put the uid in there, it
won''t work.  Text string
> must be specified.  I know it''s not FDS''s fault but as my
kids would say, "that''s just whack."
> 
uid is a text string username.

uidNumber is an integer user id number.

--
mike

On 3 May 2006, at 20:18, mj@sci.fi wrote:
>
>> what''s really strange is that if you''re adding a
person to
>> multiple groups (really, listing
>> multiple memberuid attributes in a posixgroup) you MUST use the  
>> text name of the person.  Even
>> though the attr is called member*uid*, if you put the uid in  
>> there, it won''t work.  Text string
>> must be specified.  I know it''s not FDS''s fault but
as my kids
>> would say, "that''s just whack."
>
> uid is a text string username.
> uidNumber is an integer user id number.
Yes, but Susan''s point was that the generally accepted use of the  
term "uid" ( in systems and operating systems terms ) is a *number*  
that uniquely describes the user. LDAP is different from the norm,  
and "that''s just whack".

--- mj@sci.fi wrote:
> 
> > 
> > what''s really strange is that if you''re adding a
person to multiple groups (really, listing
> > multiple memberuid attributes in a posixgroup) you MUST use the text
name of the person.  Even
> > though the attr is called member*uid*, if you put the uid in there, it
won''t work.  Text
> string
> > must be specified.  I know it''s not FDS''s fault but
as my kids would say, "that''s just whack."
> > 
> 
> uid is a text string username.
> 
> uidNumber is an integer user id number.
only in this context.  99.9999% of the time, when people say UID, they mean the
number, not the
text username.  In fact, the man page is clear on this:

     The name field is the login name of a user, it is  up  to  8  letters  or
     numbers long starting with a letter.  The login name must be unique.  The
     password field is either empty (no password), a  13  character  encrypted
     password  as returned by crypt(3), or a login name preceded by two number
     signs (#) to index the shadow password file.  Anything else  (usually  *)
     is  invalid.  The uid and gid fields are two numbers indicating the users
     user-id and group-id.                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^



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