Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 14:53:26 +0100 From: sthaug@nethelp.no To: mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Really! strange uid value Message-ID: <10314.920123606@verdi.nethelp.no> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Feb 1999 08:31:19 -0500 (EST)" References: <199902271331.IAA08157@kot.ne.mediaone.net>
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> Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai once stated: > > => -rw-r--r-- 1 4294967294 wheel 389120 Feb 14 23:54 pdksh.core.xclink > > =this is exactly what I got when I tried to compile some things over NFS. > =The created directory and files were also like this: > = > =1 drwxr-xr-x 3 4294967294 wheel - 512 Feb 15 21:09 aout/ > = > =funny, the same value. There is something left out very fundamentally > =somewhere. > > Just FYI. This number is 0xFFFFFFFE in hex... A search for this number > through the sources does not bring anything under NFS itself, though the > following may give a clue: Remember that the "nobody" user is uid 65534 (0xfffe). The signed extension of this to 32 bits is 0xfffffffe. Maybe you're seeing uid 0 being translated to 65534 (due to NFS) and then sign extended. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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