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[rdiff-backup-users] MacOS X "nobody" UID at -2 causes OverflowError
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Charles Duffy |
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[rdiff-backup-users] MacOS X "nobody" UID at -2 causes OverflowError |
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Sun, 16 May 2010 21:12:16 +0000 (UTC) |
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Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) |
Howdy.
MacOS X puts nobody's UID at -2 in /etc/passwd, which comes out to 4294967294.
Even with a current (2.6.1) Python interpreter, the call to
tmp_rp.chown(uid+1, gid+1) # just choose random uid/gid
in FSAbilities.set_ownership() results in an OverflowError.
Perhaps it would make sense to hardcode the UID we test with to something
known to be reasonable?
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