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diff --git a/chapter07/createfiles.xml b/chapter07/createfiles.xml index 7df2acde6..ca148f966 100644 --- a/chapter07/createfiles.xml +++ b/chapter07/createfiles.xml @@ -169,6 +169,15 @@ EOF</userinput></screen> freely by the system administrator since well-written programs do not depend 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 + <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 + portable program should not depend on this assignment.</para> + <para>Some tests in <xref linkend="chapter-building-system"/> need a regular user. We add this user here and delete this account at the end of that chapter.</para> |