UIDs and GIDs
Mark Brown
mbrown at osf.org
Fri Jun 29 01:31:38 AEST 1990
From: mbrown at osf.org (Mark Brown)
In 1003.1, "User ID" is defined as a positive integer (so is GID)...
Also, uid_t is defined as an arithmetic type (same for gid_t).
How does one handle (or can one handle) certain networking conventions that
use a "dummy" user ("nobody") and require a user id of -2 ?
Do these conflict as they seem, or am I missing something (always possible..)
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