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From: auspex!guy@uunet.uu.net (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Yet another finger hole
Message-ID: <2352@kalliope.rice.edu>
Date: 16 Dec 88 17:13:57 GMT
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Original-Date: 7 Dec 88 02:22:22 GMT
X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 60, message 14 of 14

>This makes /usr/etc/sa complain about preposterous user ids of 65534
>every time sa is run.  It is too bad Sun has hardcoded a totally bogus
>user id into the kernel

Another fix is to make it not be bogus; a future release will probably do
so (and make UIDs and GIDs unsigned consistently, as they are in BSD and
S5).

>This unnecessary annoyance is still a small price to pay for the added
>security of running fingerd as nobody.

And you can silence "sa" by changing the line in "root"s "crontab" file to
read:

15 0 * * * /usr/etc/sa -s 2>&1 >/dev/null | egrep -v '^Preposterous user id, 65534: ignored$'