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From: guy@auspex.uucp (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: UIDs and GIDs
Keywords: versus Networking
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Date: 29 Jun 90 16:42:03 GMT
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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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