Cameron Simpson wrote:
On 30Oct2006 17:12, Anthony Messina amessina@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?