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Article #317Re: UIDs and GIDs
From: Doug Gwyn
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 1990 21:36
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 1990 21:36
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From: Doug Gwyn <gwyn@smoke.brl.mil>
In article <743@longway.TIC.COM> From: mbrown@osf.org (Mark Brown)
>How does one handle (or can one handle) certain networking conventions that
>use a "dummy" user ("nobody") and require a user id of -2 ?
These are not POSIX-conforming.
NFS was determined to not be POSIX-conformant in several ways
during 1003.1 deliberations. Our consensus was that we shouldn't
mess up UNIX standards to accommodate such clear violations of
UNIX conventions as the use of negative UIDs.
It is possible that you can get away with using UID 65534 instead
of -2.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!longway!std-unix From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.std.unix Subject: Re: UIDs and GIDs Message-ID: <755@longway.TIC.COM> Date: 29 Jun 90 21:36:16 GMT References: <743@longway.TIC.COM> Sender: std-unix@longway.TIC.COM Reply-To: std-unix@uunet.uu.net Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD. Lines: 16 Approved: jsq@longway.tic.com (Moderator, John S. Quarterman)