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- From: Doug Gwyn <gwyn@smoke.brl.mil>
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- 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 ?
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- 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.
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- It is possible that you can get away with using UID 65534 instead
- of -2.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 20, Number 70
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