As I posted in blfs-support, it appears portmapper, at least when run using
the blfs bootscript (and not started by inetd/xinetd as the portmapper manpage
recommends), runs as UID 1 regardless of whether or not that is even a valid
UID. Either the book needs to add a bin user (I assume that's what
Jeremy Herbison wrote:
As I posted in blfs-support, it appears portmapper, at least when run using
the blfs bootscript (and not started by inetd/xinetd as the portmapper manpage
recommends), runs as UID 1 regardless of whether or not that is even a valid
UID. Either the book needs to add a bin