nfsnobody uid number

[Anthony Messina]

James Wilkinson wrote:
> What are you attempting to talk to?
> Unix and Unix-like systems used to use 16 bit user numbers because
> no-one expected a Unix box to have more than 60 000 users.
> 
> Unfortunately, with centralised authentication schemes and large
> organisations, that assumption became false: it did become theoretically
> possible that any one of 100 000 users might log into a Unix computer.
> So user IDs (and group IDs) were extended to 32 bits. Having a nfsnobody
> user in the middle of umpteen-thousand normal user IDs was considered
> confusing, so it was moved.
> 
> There are still some operating systems around that haven't changed
> (often due to compatibility concerns).
> 
> In your case, either you'll have to limit Fedora to 60 000 users and use
> 65534 as the nfsnobody userID, or you'll have to reconfigure the "other"
> computer(s) to use 32 bit userIDs.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> James.

yes sir. thanks james. i do appreciate the explanation and it makes
sense.  but if i have 2 servers, identical fc installations with the
default 32 bit number, i get this -2 is too big error.  i guess that's
the root of the problem.  i thought i might be missing something else in
my config that was leading to that.  putting it at 65534 makes things
work instantly, which is what i'll do since i am no where near 100,000
users :)

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