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Bug#765499: Patch to make policy document 32-bit uids



Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> writes:

> +	      <tag>4294967294:</tag>
> +	      <item>
> +		<p>
> +		  <tt>(uid_t)(-2) == (gid_t)(-2)</tt> <em>must
> +		  not</em> be used, because it is mistaken for
> +                  <tt>65534</tt> <prgn>nobody</prgn> by some
> +                  programs.
> +		</p>
> +	      </item>

I would instead say:

    <em>must not</em> be used, because it is used as the anonymous,
    unauthenticated user by some NFS implementations.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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