From: fair-tuhs@netbsd.org (Erik E. Fair)
Subject: [TUHS] observations on Unix v6's mount command
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2017 22:32:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <559.1489041153@cesium.clock.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADxT5N60TwE7y2niitqyJVxo9N3swT=UmSp=23yDe_aoNPzs6A@mail.gmail.com>
The 31 is likely a UID number not found in /etc/passwd
Insofar as I know, you can set the ownership of a file to any arbitrary integer within the range of the uid_t (or whatever it was in ye olden days). See chown(8).
Erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-09 6:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-09 6:25 Mark Longridge
2017-03-09 6:32 ` Erik E. Fair [this message]
2017-03-09 7:06 ` Warren Toomey
2017-03-09 15:01 ` Ron Natalie
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