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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: moriya@ifi.unicamp.br, syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au
Subject: Re: mountd -n hates 'nobody' (was: Re: Exporting a file system to a PC.)
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>mountd is rejecting requests from uid -2 even with the -n switch.  This
>behaviour started in FreeBSD 2.0, and seems totally bogus to me.  I've

This may have something to do with

	(uid_t)(-2) = (unsigned long)(-2) = 0xfffffffe != (nobody = 65534)

Bruce