[OpenAFS] Very odd pts database issue

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Thursday, September 16, 2004 19:36:49 -0700 Russ Allbery 
<rra@stanford.edu> wrote:

> This one has me mystified:
>
> (root) windlord:~> pts exam 32766
> (root) windlord:~> pts delete 32766
> (root) windlord:~> pts exam 32766
> (root) windlord:~> pts createuser -name ajbut -id 32766
> pts: Entry for id already exists ; unable to create user ajbut with id
> 32766
>
> Any ideas on how to fix this, beyond just reserving that ID as bogus and
> allocating a new one?
>
> The completely empty output from pts exam is very odd.  I've never seen
> that before.

That ID is reserved, to identify objects created by unauthenticated users.
You'd probably do well to skip 32767 and 32768 as well, for reasons not 
related to AFS.

-- JEff