On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:34:24AM +0100, Manuel Moreno wrote: > It seems that this oddity appears when you have 'nobody' or some other > user (nfsnobody) assigned to uid '-1' in a 64 bit linux > nobody uid 99 > nfsnobody uid 65534 Sure -- the file is indexed by UID, and 65534 is a kinda big number. Or if you use actual -1 with 32-bit uids, you get, what, 4294967295 -- which is a *really* big number. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 79 degrees Fahrenheit.