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authorXi Ruoyao <xry111@mengyan1223.wang>2022-05-02 15:41:52 +0800
committerXi Ruoyao <xry111@mengyan1223.wang>2022-05-02 15:42:52 +0800
commit0414633793e568fd49a4b1fbae74fada9ab48838 (patch)
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minor fix for 65534 explanation: it is also used for "unmapped" groups
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@@ -170,9 +170,9 @@ EOF</userinput></screen>
on GID numbers, but rather use the group's name.</para>
<para>The ID 65534 is used by the kernel for NFS and separate user
- namespaces for unmapped users (those exist on the NFS server or the parent
- user namespace, but <quote>do not exist</quote> on the local machine or in
- the separate namespace). We assign
+ namespaces for unmapped users and groups (those exist on the NFS server
+ or the parent user namespace, but <quote>do not exist</quote> on the local
+ machine or in the separate namespace). We assign
<systemitem class="username">nobody</systemitem> and
<systemitem class="groupname">nogroup</systemitem> for it to avoid an
unnamed ID. But other distros may treat this ID differently, so any