On 10/13/2010 5:24 PM, Stephen Harris wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 04:47:45PM -0400, John Kennedy wrote:
>> the next user even though some dim bulb gave a use a UID of 4294967294 (how
>> the hell that user can log in with a UID out of range is beyond me unless it
>> gets truncated)...
>
> Who says 4294967294 is out of range?
>
> # grep tstuser /etc/passwd
> tstuser:x:4294967294:10::/:/bin/bash
> # su - tstuser
> -bash-3.2$ id -a
> uid=4294967294(tstuser) gid=10(wheel) groups=10(wheel)
> -bash-3.2$ touch /tmp/x0
> -bash-3.2$ stat /tmp/x0
> File: `/tmp/x0'
> Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 regular empty file
> Device: 806h/2054d Inode: 196620 Links: 1
> Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: (4294967294/ tstuser) Gid: ( 10/ wheel)
> Access: 2010-10-13 18:15:28.000000000 -0400
> Modify: 2010-10-13 18:15:28.000000000 -0400
> Change: 2010-10-13 18:15:28.000000000 -0400
>
> Looks good to me! The file just created has an ownership with the right
> uid.
64-bit, I presume? Does your /var/log/lastlog look pretty big after
that person logs in or did that get fixed?
--
Les Mikesell
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