Quoting Andy Johnson (johnson...@gmail.com): > Hello, > I read your posts, thanks a lot for the good and detailed info and examples. > > >When a new user namespace is created, the task populating it starts >as > userid -1, nobody. > > I don't understand something: why nobody is userid -1 ? > On fedora 18 we have: > cat /etc/passwd | grep nobody > nobody:x:99:99:Nobody:/:/sbin/nologin > nfsnobody:x:65534:65534:Anonymous NFS User:/var/lib/nfs:/sbin/nologin > > Now it seems to me that userid of nobody is 99 here, according to this doc > about /etc/passwd format: > http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/understanding-etcpasswd-file-format/
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