[pubcookie-users] Re: login server - initial install trouble

[Jon Miner]

* Maurizio Marini (maumar at datalogica.com) [030130 15:43]:
> On Thursday 30 January 2003 08:17 pm, Kevin Bowen wrote:

(Mauizio, is there any way you can set your client to quote in a more
standard manner?  I have major difficulties telling your message from
the one you're responding-to.)

> in ancient linux distro, nobody was 65534 (-1)
> nowdays it's used to be 99

Actually, the "nobody" user is whatever it wants to be.  On Solaris
(SunOS >= 5), it's generally 60001, on SunOS < 5, it was 65534, on AIX
5.1 it's 4294967294

the real answer to who nobody is: getpwnam("nobody").pw_uid
(not that such code would work, but anyway..)


> It seems like  you are accessing something with user 65534 and mod_ssl
> complains that no such uid is in your /etc/passwd

That would be my guess: apache is set to an explicit uid instead of a
username.

jon

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