In message <1133367909l.194l.0l@origin.amelgem.be>, dieter Roelants writes:
>
>Hello
>
>I currently have 3.0_RC3 running netbooted on a cobalt RaQ2. I noticed  
>that something isn't quiet right with user id's:
>
>$ grep dieter /etc/passwd
>dieter:*:1980:1980:Dieter Roelants:/home/dieter:/bin/ksh
>$ id
>uid=3154575360(dieter) gid=3154575360  
>groups=3154575360,0(wheel),5(operator)
>$ id daemon
>uid=16777216(daemon) gid=16777216 groups=16777216,1(daemon)
>

Looks like an endian problem.  3154575360 is 0xBC070000; 0x07BC is 
1980.  Similarly, 16777216 is 0x1000000, while daemon should be uid 1.


		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb