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John F. Haugh II
jfh at rpp386.cactus.org
Sat Jun 30 11:52:12 AEST 1990
From: jfh at rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)
In article <743 at longway.TIC.COM> From: mbrown at 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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