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Article #332Re: UIDs and GIDs
From: Guy Harris
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 1990 16:42
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 1990 16:42
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From: guy@auspex.uucp (Guy Harris)
>How does one handle (or can one handle) certain networking conventions that
>use a "dummy" user ("nobody") and require a user id of -2 ?
One uses, say, 65534 instead. As of when I was last at Sun, that was what
was going to be done for SunOS 4.1, which would have unsigned user and
group IDs for SVID compliance (and BSD compatibility, for that
matter...).
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!longway!std-unix From: guy@auspex.uucp (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.std.unix Subject: Re: UIDs and GIDs Keywords: versus Networking Message-ID: <766@longway.TIC.COM> Date: 29 Jun 90 16:42:03 GMT References: <743@longway.TIC.COM> Sender: std-unix@longway.TIC.COM Reply-To: std-unix@uunet.uu.net Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 11 Approved: jsq@longway.tic.com (Moderator, John S. Quarterman)