Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 13:33:45 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Cc: Akifyev Sergey <asa@gascom.ru>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nfs creates files with huge uids Message-ID: <20021210193344.GI48182@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <3DF63D70.4030200@gmx.net> References: <3DF53278.9030405@gmx.net> <1039507581.307.26.camel@asa.gascom.net.ru> <3DF63D70.4030200@gmx.net>
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In the last episode (Dec 10), Michael Nottebrock said: > Akifyev Sergey wrote: > >[... ripped by viruses ...] > >In the absence of -maproot and -mapall options, remote accesses by root > >will result in using a credential of -2:-2. All other users will be > >mapped to their remote credential. > >[... ripped by viruses ...] > > > >so, here's your answer! -2 would be 0xfffffffe in hexadecimal, and > >4294967294 in decimal (10 digits). Here's where your insanely huge uid > >comes from. > > Thanks! However, isn't there a bug somewhere - either that nfs (can) > create files with such high uids or that find(1) is still limited to > 16-bit uids? It's a bug in find's parser. "find . -user -2" does work though, so at least you have a workaround. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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