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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Shadow file password policy Post 302458564 by pinga123 on Friday 1st of October 2010 06:07:04 AM
Old 10-01-2010
Nice question .I was written in the security manual that all GID must be within range for the distribution.


Quote:
The user “nobody” traditionally got the largest possible UID (as the opposite of the Superuser): 32767. ---Source wikipedia.
Sadly this is not the case in my distribution.
Quote:
cat /etc/passwd | grep nobody
nobody:x:99:99:Nobody:/:/sbin/nologin
However i checked the /usr/include/bits but there is no such directory called bits.
Instead i got it under /usr/include/pppd/pppd.h

Quote:
# grep -i gid /usr/include/pppd/pppd.h
#ifndef GIDSET_TYPE
#define GIDSET_TYPE gid_t

extern GIDSET_TYPE groups[NGROUPS_MAX]; /* groups the user is in */
Quote:
# grep -i gid_t /usr/include/pppd/pppd.h
#define GIDSET_TYPE gid_t
Still not sure if it is int or something else.

---------- Post updated at 05:07 AM ---------- Previous update was at 05:02 AM ----------

Do you think its int as i got following.

Quote:
#define GIDSET_TYPE gid_t
/usr/include/libsmbclient.h:int smbc_chown(const char *url, uid_t owner, gid_t group);
/usr/include/libdevmapper.h:int dm_task_set_gid(struct dm_task *dmt, gid_t gid);
 

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