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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 12:38:27 -0800
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From: Erik Fair <security-officer@NetBSD.ORG>
Subject: SunOS/Solaris "nobody" UID versus NetBSD's "nobody" UID
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In
	http://www.NetBSD.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=6594

Greg Woods observes that our "nobody" doesn't match Sun's, or our own 
"mountd" value of (-2).

Solaris:

	nobody:x:60001:60001:Nobody:/:/sbin/noshell

SunOS:

	nobody:*:65534:65534:Mr. &:/:

NetBSD:

	nobody:*:32767:9999:Mr. &:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin

This is one of those consistency issues which pops up when NFS is used.

Do we care enough to change it? Does NFS specify a UID value range 
(i.e. how many bits, and therefore is there an LP64 issue here)?

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).

	seeking opinion, since I have none,

	Erik <fair@clock.org>