On 30Oct2006 17:12, Anthony Messina <amessina@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | why does nfsnobody have such a long uid/gid number in a fresh install? | | # grep nfsnobody /etc/passwd | nfsnobody:x:4294967294:4294967294:Anonymous NFS | User:/var/lib/nfs:/sbin/nologin | | this has caused problems on previous nfs4 installations. i usually have | to change it to 65534 to get things to work. That's the 32-bit version of "-2". 65534 is the 16 bit version. It probably tracks the "uid_t" type size. -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ There's not a woman in his book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by chapter 29. - P J O'Rourke parodying a PC review of Moby Dick -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list