lastlog devours universe

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 10:34:24AM +0100, Manuel Moreno wrote:
> It seems that this oddity appears when you have 'nobody' or some other 
> user (nfsnobody) assigned to uid '-1' in a 64 bit linux
> nobody uid 99
> nfsnobody uid 65534

Sure -- the file is indexed by UID, and 65534 is a kinda big number. Or if
you use actual -1 with 32-bit uids, you get, what, 4294967295 -- which is a
*really* big number.


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