httpd lineage

Ben Scott dragonhawk at gmail.com
Thu Feb 8 20:03:50 EST 2007


On 2/8/07, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
>> When NFS V2 and V3 servers receive requests from userid 0, they map them to
>> userid 65534, (sorta not really -2), which is nobody.
>
> I don't think that's the default, or at least it didn't used to be.

  It almost certainly depends on the implementation.

> Of course, that might just have been on Ultrix... I don't remember the
> details.

"ULTRIX is amazingly customizable: you have to replace 1/3 of it to
make it usable."
                -- Marcus J Ranum, comp.unix.ultrix

-- Ben


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