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Date:      Tue, 10 Dec 2002 20:16:00 +0100
From:      Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
To:        Akifyev Sergey <asa@gascom.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nfs creates files with huge uids
Message-ID:  <3DF63D70.4030200@gmx.net>
References:  <3DF53278.9030405@gmx.net> <1039507581.307.26.camel@asa.gascom.net.ru>

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Akifyev Sergey wrote:
> [... ripped by viruses ...]
> In the absence of -maproot and -mapall options, remote accesses by root
> will result in using a credential of -2:-2.  All other users will be
> mapped to their remote credential.
> [... ripped by viruses ...]
> 
> so, here's your answer! -2 would be 0xfffffffe in hexadecimal, and
> 4294967294 in decimal (10 digits). Here's where your insanely huge uid
> comes from.

Thanks! However, isn't there a bug somewhere - either that nfs (can) 
create files with such high uids or that find(1) is still limited to 
16-bit uids?

-- 
Regards,
	Michael Nottebrock



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