Mike Smith writes:
> v2 NFS doesn't support UIDs > 65535, and UIDs around that number are
> magic to it as well. There are serious security issues here (files
> will appear to be owned by the wrong user).
Hmm, isn't this a separate bug in itself (unrelated to pwd_mkdb)?
Ie, somewhere in the kernel there should be a check for "UID wrap"
that generates an error if detected. At least on the server; on the
client of course it would be too late.
-Archie
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