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From: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)
Newsgroups: comp.std.unix
Subject: Re: UIDs and GIDs
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Date: 30 Jun 90 01:52:12 GMT
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From:  jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)

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 ?

The solution in AIX 3.1 was to use whatever the value of (unsigned) -2
happens to be as an unsigned integer string.  It comes out to be some
real long ugly number ...
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