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Date:      Sat, 13 Jun 1998 23:40:33 +0200 (CEST)
From:      aagero@Norway.EU.net
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   bin/6939: wrong type for userid used in restore(8)
Message-ID:  <199806132140.XAA15897@aage.eunet.no>

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>Number:         6939
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       restore does not set the correct uid on directories where uid > 32767
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jun 13 14:50:01 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Åge Røbekk
>Organization:
EUnet Norge AS
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE i386
>Environment:

	2.2.6-STABLE

>Description:

        Restore(8) uses a signed short as the type for uids in directories, which
        hands negative values to chown() when the userid goes beyond 32767 (2^15 - 1)
        
        The net effect is that directories end up with the wrong userid, making
        restores on systems with lots of users problematic.

>How-To-Repeat:

	restore a dump with userids > 32767

>Fix:
	
	Merge revision 1.8 of src/sbin/restore/dirs.c from current.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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