[OpenAFS] Bug in pts/ptserver: createuser with a negative id works

[Jeffrey Altman]

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On 10/15/2010 3:05 PM, Phillip Moore wrote:
> While adding test cases for failures in the AFS::Command::PTS test
> suite, I noticed the following unexpected results:
>=20
> [root@rpcore ~]# pts createuser -name fakeafscmduser -id -1010 -cell
> a.rp.nyc.us.test.efs
> User fakeafscmduser has id -1010
> [root@rpcore ~]# pts creategroup -name fakeafscmdgroup -id 510 -cell
> a.rp.nyc.us.test.efs
> pts: argument illegal or out of range because group id 510 was not nega=
tive
>=20
> At the very least, this assymetry suggests that one these is wrong.  My=

> vote is that createuser is broken, and should be producing the same typ=
e
> of error as creategroup does when the opposite mistake is made.
>=20
> The resulting pts ID looks like a normal group, FWIW:
>=20
> [root@rpcore ~]# pts examine fakeafscmduser
> Name: fakeafscmduser, id: -1010, owner: afsadmin, creator: afsadmin,
>   membership: 0, flags: S-M--, group quota: 0.
>=20
> This is using OpenAFS 1.5.77, and I don't have handy access to an older=

> cell to test this.=20

Creatuser is broken.  Please send bugs to openafs-bugs@openafs.org



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