Numeric username bigger than ulong gives error with -U option
Bug #1478655 reported by
CaduEllery
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| procps (Ubuntu) |
New
|
Undecided
|
Basavaraj | ||
Bug Description
Our company uses numeric usernames (people's "social ID nº"). These numbers may be bigger than an ulong variable. When we do ps -U "numeric username" we get "user ID out of range" error.
Ex:
root@test:~# ps -U 56563882714
error: user ID out of range
This is impacting particularly the Vagrant's usage, as this tool uses the ps's -U option extensively.
Attached is a patch that is working for us. Please validate or correct it.
Thanks.
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS
Release: 12.04
procps version: 1:3.2.8-11ubuntu6.4
And
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
Release: 14.04
procps version: 1:3.3.9-1ubuntu2.2
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| CaduEllery (cmellery) wrote | #1 |
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| CaduEllery (cmellery) wrote | #2 |
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| Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote | #3 |
| tags: | added: patch |
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| Basavaraj (basavarajmulagund92) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in procps (Ubuntu): | |
| assignee: | nobody → Basavaraj (basavarajmulagund92) |
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