Kernel 2.4, NFS, and 32 bit UIDs

[Shane Wegner <shane@cm.nu>]

Hi,

I encountered a problem going to Linux 2.4 and am not sure
what is the correct thing to do here.  My nfs client sends
-2 as the UID and GID when mounting a remote directory. 
This cannot be changed.  Normally, this maps to
nobody.nogroup uid 65534.  However, on Linux 2.4, sending
-2 maps to 4294967294 which on Debian is not mapped to a
user id on a Debian system.  Should the nobody user and
nogroup group be set to id 4294967294?  If so, what will
that do on kernel 2.2?

Cheers,
Shane

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