"John R. Jackson" wrote:
>
> >I checked the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files which had user/group
> >nobody with the id of 4294967294. After I changed that ...
>
> Ummm, you changed the gid and uid of "nobody"? That was probably kind
> of rash. There are things floating around that know about that and
> expect a specific value. Like NFS :-).
Yes, for example we have a piece of lab equipment from England which
requires an Acorn computer. If you don't have other Acorn devices on
the network, usually the only way to print and share files is via PCNFS,
and to get that to work correctly I had to set UID nobody to some such
value as that, and changing the value would "break" printing and file
sharing from the Acorn.
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"Jonathan F. Dill" ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
