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From: woods@most.weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
To: tech-security@NetBSD.ORG (NetBSD Security Technical Discussion List)
Subject: Re: SunOS/Solaris "nobody" UID versus NetBSD's "nobody" UID
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[ On Sunday, November 28, 1999 at 03:08:56 (-0800), Erik Fair wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: SunOS/Solaris "nobody" UID versus NetBSD's "nobody" UID
>
> How often is that section of code run?

It is only run at the time mountd starts and when it receives SIGHUP
(i.e. when it's reading /etc/exports).
 
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