Script Owner 101

[rasheed]

I'm trying to install Unicenter Network and Systems Management 3.1 on V480 with Solaris 8. The installation failed...and while I searching for the reason I found the owner of the directories where this application installed owned by user ID 101 and group ID 101. I have test this application on Ultra10 workstation and the installation worked fine!

[MattyMoose]

Did you ever get this problem solved?

If you have that old Ultra10 sitting around, what was the user that had ID 101? I believe that Solaris will start creating users at 100, and increment up.

For my system, it happens to be sshd, since I set up SSH with privilege separation.

What were the specific reasons it failed? Is it system-related, or the actual installer is broken (if you see error messages at all). Which do you "feel" it is?

It may be trying to create a user and failing, or chown'ing the files to a wrong ID, but typically if there's a file that shows

101 101 rwxrwxrwx file.dat

That usually means that there WAS a user with that ID, but it's been removed from the system, or it was setup through NFS, or some other network file system (samba with winbind, etc etc).

Anyway, I hope you got it solved already. :)