Keith Farrar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
}Does anyone know how files might become owned by the AFS userid 32766?
}Might it happen if a process outlives its token for a cell?
}
}The results below suggest that the authentification system recognizes
}the id:
}
}% pts exam 32766
}% pts exam anonymous
}pts: User or group doesn't exist so couldn't look up id for anonymous
}
}Is this just a magic userid (like the -2, 60001, and 65534 uids and gids
}used for "nobody") place-filler? Is it documented somewhere I missed?
}RTFM pointers would be appreciated, if appropriate.
I was able to reproduce it with:
su
su nobody (nobody:*:-2:-2:anonymous NFS user:/:/bin/tcsh)
touch dummy
ls -l dummy
-rw-r--r-- 1 john 0 Feb 5 14:38 dummy
rm dummy
unlog
touch dummy
ls -l dummy
-rw-r--r-- 1 32766 0 Feb 5 14:39 dummy
John
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