Yet another finger hole

[trinkle at purdue.edu]

The only inconvenience of changing fingerd to run as "nobody", is that
nobody has a uid (type uid_t == unsigned int) of -2.  In SunOS 4.0, Sun is
very careful (ha ha) to handle all uids as type uid_t.  This makes
/usr/etc/sa complain about preposterous user ids of 65534 every time sa is
run.  It is too bad Sun has hardcoded a totally bogus user id into the
kernel (and it has been perpetuated by other vendors that support NFS out
of necessity), or it would be simple enough to change nobody to a
reasonable uid.

This unnecessary annoyance is still a small price to pay for the added
security of running fingerd as nobody.

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