large UIDs and nfsnobody

[Tom Georgoulias <tom georgoulias freescale com>]

Yesterday I noticed that a user with large UID who was logged into an 
opteron system running RHEL3 WS AMD64 had the username of "nfsnobody." 
I haven't changed anything in my NIS setup and I used pretty much the 
same installation RHEL options for the AMD64 system as I have for my 
Xeons, so I don't think I misconfigured anything (although I could be 
wrong).

On a system running RHEL3 WS AMD 64:

Linux:winston:43% id
uid=12035128
 <snipped for security>
Linux:winston:44% cd /tmp
Linux:winston:45% touch test_uid
Linux:winston:46% ls -lnd test
-rw-rw-r--    1 65534    40              0 May 18 08:08 test_uid
Linux:winston:47%

On a RHEL3 WS:

Linux:hatfield1:43% id
uid=12035128
 <snipped for security>
Linux:hatfield1:44% touch test_uid
Linux:hatfield1:45% ls -lnd test_uid
-rw-rw-r--    1 12035128 40              0 May 18 08:31 test_uid
Linux:hatfield1:46%

Found a bugzilla entry that describes this problem for ia64 (107718), 
but it's kinda old.

Any ideas?
Tom
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