Description of problem: useradd running on i386 or ppc64 rejects UIDs above 2147483647. Works well on ia64, x86_64 and s390x. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): shadow-utils-4.0.17-14.el5 How reproducible: on i386 and ppc64 machines always Steps to Reproduce: # useradd -u 4294967293 biguser3 useradd: invalid numeric argument '4294967293' # echo $? 3 # grep biguser3 /etc/passwd # grep biguser3 /etc/group Actual results: new user is not created Expected results: new user gets created Additional info:
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Tested on all architectures on both RHEL-4.8 and RHEL-5.3. RHEL-4.8 does not suffer from this issue.
easy fix, basically it would be nice to fix it together with #487575 and #484040.
An advisory 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 therefore 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-2010-0209.html