On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 03:43:27PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Then there is the problem that you can't chown to -1 (as -1 means skip > > that). I am not sure what this means, though. > > That's a feature.
Well, I know so much, I've just not checked extensively if some breakage will occur if we run adduser and it tries to do that. We do specify --no-create-home, though. > You wouldn't want to have this uid own files, > anyway. Right, and I think it is a good idea to not dynamically create this entry either, as the uid must not change anyway. > BTW, what's the difference to Unix's nobody? Nobody is just another user, though usually with special semantics. The Hurd nouser is just that: No user at all. Ids in the Hurd are sets, and nouser is the one with the empty id set. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
