nfsnobody uid number

[Cameron Simpson]

On 31Oct2006 16:35, Anthony Messina <amessina at messinet.com> wrote:
| Cameron Simpson wrote:
| > On 30Oct2006 17:12, Anthony Messina <amessina at messinet.com> wrote:
| > | why does nfsnobody have such a long uid/gid number in a fresh install?
| > | 
| > | # grep nfsnobody /etc/passwd
| > | nfsnobody:x:4294967294:4294967294:Anonymous NFS
| > | User:/var/lib/nfs:/sbin/nologin
| > | 
| > | this has caused problems on previous nfs4 installations. i usually have
| > | to change it to 65534 to get things to work.
| > 
| > That's the 32-bit version of "-2". 65534 is the 16 bit version.
| > It probably tracks the "uid_t" type size.
| 
| thank you for your reply.  trouble is, when i use that number, i get the
| following message in my logs:
| 
| rpc.idmapd[2086]: nfsdcb: id '-2' too big!
| 
| and the idmapping fails to work properly.  in order to use that 32 bit
| number, is there something else i might not be configuring properly?

I don't really know. Is there a problem with just changing it to 65534
as you have been doing?
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