RE: [Slashcode-general] question

[Rick F. <ri...@na...>]

This has something to do with the latest versions of MySQL not being
able to AUTO INCREMENT fields with negative values. (Anonymous Coward
has a uid of -1).  Downgrading to 3.22.32 MySQL fixes this.

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> Behalf Of daniel j wharton
> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 10:55 PM
> To: sla...@li...
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> Subject: Re: [Slashcode-general] question
> 
> 
> 
> ok... I think our problems are very similar.  For me though, it seems
> that the Anonymous Coward user was screwing it all up.  Once 
> I deleted it,
> everything works fine.  Here were the simptoms:
> 
> 1) Would only create the first user account.
> 
> 2) Even when adding users directly through mysql it wouldn't work.  It
> would report "ERROR 1062: Duplicate entry '2147483647' for 
> key 1".  Even
> if I specified a different uid than 2147483647, it would 
> still report the
> same thing.
> 
> weird... removing all the default accounts cleared it up though.  
> 
> thanks for the help!
> 
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Benjamin MA Robson wrote:
> 
> > Daniel,
> > 
> > I actually encountered what seems to be a similar thing.  
> The system would create the first account, uid 0, fine but
> > would not create subsequent accounts.  To solve this I 
> artificially created a dummy uid 0 account and the system then
> > seemed to work fine.  Was a little odd, but I got it working.
> > 
> > However it may have been something strange I was doing as I 
> have ported it to OpenBSD.
> > 
> > Regards
> > Ben
> > 
> > daniel j wharton wrote:
> > > 
> > > I am not sure if this list is active, but I was wondering 
> if anyone could
> > > help with a problem I am having.
> > > 
> > > When I try to create a user in the login section, it just doesn't
> > > work.  It returns the following:
> > > 
> > > Once you receive your password, you can log in and set 
> your account up
> > > testuser was not found. No Password mailed.
> > > 
> > > I don't understand.  The whole point is for it to create 
> the user, so why
> > > is it saying that the user isn't found?
> > > 
> > > btw:  The first user I created worked fine, and I haven't 
> changed anything
> > > since then.
> > > 
> > > thanks in advance.
> > > 
> > > daniel
> > > 
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