[1610] in Moira
Re: FW: users with 999999999 id number not able to generate personal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Van Dyke)
Mon Jul 17 16:59:53 2000
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 16:59:48 -0400
From: Mark Van Dyke <mvan@MIT.EDU>
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> >> (As a side note, we should really be giving users unique id's or what's
> >> the point).
>
> We do; the staff and student load programs flag any duplicate id's
> that they load and they appear in files in the mb locker that accounts
> goes through on a regular basis. The only time someone gets 999999999
> as an id number in moira is when accounts enters them by hand and they
> don't know what their MIT id yet. They almost all get updated to their
> real id number pretty soon thereafter.
Actually, voucher/guest accounts (for those individuals who were never
assigned MIT id numbers) are generally added to moira with the 999999999
id number.
Mark
