On 31Oct2006 16:35, Anthony Messina <amessina@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | Cameron Simpson wrote: | > On 30Oct2006 17:12, Anthony Messina <amessina@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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? -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Dope will carry you through times of no money better than money will carry you through times of no dope! - Freewheelin' Franklin
