Bug 123028 - 32bit UID & GID's get mapped to 65534
Summary: 32bit UID & GID's get mapped to 65534
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 3.0
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jim Paradis
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-05-11 14:42 UTC by Panu Matilainen
Modified: 2013-08-06 01:06 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2004-09-02 04:31:32 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
Patch to fix 32bit UID's (1.58 KB, patch)
2004-05-11 14:45 UTC, Panu Matilainen
no flags Details | Diff


Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2004:433 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Updated kernel packages available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 3 2004-09-02 04:00:00 UTC

Description Panu Matilainen 2004-05-11 14:42:30 UTC
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Description of problem:
On RHEL 3 x86_64 all 32bit UID's and GID's map to 65534, regardless of
filesystem type. See http://www.x86-64.org/lists/discuss/msg04027.html
for more discussion on the topic.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.4.21, all releases

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. touch foo
2. chown 11223344 foo
3. ls -l foo
    

Actual Results:  ls shows it's owned by nfsnobody (uid 65534)

Expected Results:  The owner should change to uid 11223344.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Panu Matilainen 2004-05-11 14:45:07 UTC
Created attachment 100151 [details]
Patch to fix 32bit UID's

Patch fetched from the URL above and rediffed against 2.4.21-9.0.3.EL sources.
Fixes the problem for me.

Comment 2 Ernie Petrides 2004-05-11 18:52:32 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 117435 ***

Comment 3 John Flanagan 2004-09-02 04:31:32 UTC
An errata has been issued which should help the problem 
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being 
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, 
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report 
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2004-433.html



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