From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Uids should not be allowed to set to negative
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 09:45:58 -0400
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On Friday 08 August 2008 06:09:59 Cai Xianchao wrote:
> When I tried to set uid to negative, no error message was outputed and
> the return value was 0. In the rule list, the value of uid was also
> negative. Negative uid does not exist and the negative user can't be
> added. So, I think uids can't be set to negative.

There really is uid -1 and uid -2. We run into this problem with faillog all 
the time. I think they are nobody and nfsnobody respectively. They used by 
NFS.

-Steve