UIDs and GIDs
Guy Harris
guy at auspex.uucp
Sat Jun 30 02:42:03 AEST 1990
From: guy at 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...).
Volume-Number: Volume 20, Number 81
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