From: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2024 10:58:00 +0000 (+0300) Subject: docs/UIDS-GIDS: drop obsolete comment about Fedora X-Git-Tag: v257-rc1~580 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=229607bca891ceeaae2324460d11f293c45696e0;p=thirdparty%2Fsystemd.git docs/UIDS-GIDS: drop obsolete comment about Fedora https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RenameNobodyUser, 2018: > Use "nobody:nobody" as the names for the kernel overflow UID:GID pair, and > retire the old "nfsnobody" name and the old "nobody:nobody" pair with 99:99 > numbers. --- diff --git a/docs/UIDS-GIDS.md b/docs/UIDS-GIDS.md index 4b28d9551f5..09488e2a78e 100644 --- a/docs/UIDS-GIDS.md +++ b/docs/UIDS-GIDS.md @@ -27,9 +27,6 @@ i.e. 0…4294967295. However, four UIDs are special on Linux: only supporting 16-bit UIDs, NFS or user namespacing. (The latter can be changed with a sysctl during runtime, but that's not supported on `systemd`. If you do change it you void your warranty.) - Because Fedora is a bit confused the `nobody` user is called `nfsnobody` there - (and they have a different `nobody` user at UID 99). - I hope this will be corrected eventually though. (Also, some distributions call the `nobody` group `nogroup`. I wish they didn't.) 3. 4294967295, aka "32-bit `(uid_t) -1`" → This UID is not a valid user ID, as