Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 15:54:14 -0600 (CST) From: "Gerald W. Carter" <cartegw@Eng.Auburn.EDU> To: Luke Leighton <lkcl@cb1.com> Subject: Re: Mapping of RIDs to uid_t and gid_t In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.980404155000.10497A-100000@cb1-gw.cb1.com>
On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, David Collier-Brown wrote:
>
> > Or are they like
> > Unix uids and gids, separate and each populated
> > starting with zero?
>
> what do you mean by this?
>
For example, root user has a uid of 0 and the root ( or wheel ) group has
a gid of 0. These are totally difference number spaces. I think this is
what he means.
j-
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