From: philw@plan9.att.com philw@plan9.att.com
Subject: user ID of adm
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 11:57:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19951031165723.Hij09kr9BhQ6YrdqZ18JwsdIA2tyMbTI7VXuJ49a4BM@z> (raw)
>According to the docs, a negative id simply means that the file server
>will not allow anybody to authenicate to that id. So the only way to
>create such a file is from the fs console, but as above, you can't.
adm is not a real user. It is a place holder for file system
admin files in /adm created during installation. It is the console
uid used by newuser etc to maintain the user database in /adm. I see no
conflict with either the description or function of adm.
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1995-10-31 16:57 philw [this message]
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