Bug #413

UID generation behaves badly, esp. on OS X

Added by Luke Kanies over 5 years ago. Updated almost 4 years ago.

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Assignee:Luke Kanies % Done:

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Target version:0.24.0
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Description

I keep getting inconsistent results when generating user information on OS X. Sometimes I get no value, sometimes I get a negative value, and sometimes I get a perfectly valid value.

Also, sometimes the generated group (as generated by —mkusers) doesn’t get its gid to the generated user, so the user tries to call gid= with the name of the group instead of the gid.

History

#1
Updated by Benjamin Kite over 5 years ago

Do you have any hunches as to why this is happening on OS X? Is it happening on other systems?

#2
Updated by Luke Kanies over 5 years ago

The other platforms are perfectly capable of generating their own UIDs and GIDs, but NetInfo is a semantics-free database, so it doesn’t realize how important things like UIDs are and is perfectly happy to let you create a user without one. So, really, {U,G}ID generation is probably just broken, but is only noticed on OS X.

It goes a bit beyond that, though. I was getting very inconsistent behaviour when testing this. I don’t remember all of the details, but I know that the UID would vary considerably in essentially unreasonable ways, and sometimes it just didn’t work at all.

#3
Updated by Anonymous about 5 years ago

Milestone unplanned deleted

#4
Updated by Luke Kanies about 5 years ago

Looks like dscl makes you calculate your own IDs, too, so this problem won’t go away if we switch.

#5
Updated by Luke Kanies about 5 years ago

  • Status changed from 1 to Closed
  • 7 set to fixed

This appears to have been fixed with the autogen rewrite from a while ago.

#6
Updated by James Turnbull almost 4 years ago

  • Target version changed from 4 to 0.24.0

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