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From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Samba and Proftpd
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 09:41:36
Message-Id: 20010712094136.F6995@cvs.gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Samba and Proftpd by joe.derosa.b1@bayer.com
1 On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 08:00:13AM -0400, joe.derosa.b1@×××××.com wrote:
2
3 > >change the GID for the nogroup group wrom -2 to 65534 and proftp will
4 > >work.
5 >
6 > This worked like a charm ...
7
8 BTW, I'm pretty sure that the reason -2 doesn't work anymore is that Linux
9 now uses *32* bit (rather than 16 bit) UIDs and GIDs. -2 would be interpreted
10 as 2^32-2 rather than 2^16-2; at least this is my semi-educated guess.
11
12 Best Regards,
13
14 --
15 Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
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