Subject: Re: Standard UID/GID numbers
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Julio Merino <slink@unixbsd.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/16/2002 15:53:45
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On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 02:47:32PM +0000, xs@kittenz.org wrote:
> on Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 06:21:23AM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > I am curious does any popular software hard code actual UIDs or GIDs
> > (other than maybe for "0")?
>=20
> qmail does at compile time, some portmap/mountd varients have uids hard
> coded. user nobody is sometimes hard coded as -1.

Weird...

Though the problem with numbers come when sharing trees with nfs, for
example...

>=20

--=20
Of course it runs NetBSD - http://www.netbsd.org
Julio Merino <slink@unixbsd.org>

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