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- From: guy@auspex.uucp (Guy Harris)
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- >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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- 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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- Volume-Number: Volume 20, Number 81
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