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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 01:15:02 +0100 (MET)
From: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de>
Reply-To: hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de
To: Erik Fair <security-officer@netbsd.org>
cc: tech-security@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: SunOS/Solaris "nobody" UID versus NetBSD's "nobody" UID
In-Reply-To: <v04210116b458c2bb6e62@[216.240.40.200]>
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On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Erik Fair wrote:
> What do the other UNIX-like OSes (e.g. System V, AIX, IRIX) do? (I 
> don't have access to any of those these days, partly by choice).

miyu% ssh rfhsi8002 'uname -a ; grep nobody /etc/passwd /etc/group'
IRIX rfhsi8002 6.2 03131015 IP22
/etc/passwd:nobody:*:60001:60001:SVR4 nobody uid:/dev/null:/dev/null
/etc/passwd:nobody:*:-2:-2:original nobody uid:/dev/null:/dev/null
/etc/group:nobody:*:60001:

> uname -a
AIX rfhpa8001 1 4 00224F18E000
> grep nobody /etc/passwd /etc/group
/etc/passwd:nobody:!:4294967294:4294967294::/:
/etc/group:nobody:!:4294967294:nobody,lpd


 - Hubert

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