what is 65535 ? what it means ?

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

Can u pls Explain me about the below ..

drwxrwxrwx 2 65535 65535 4096 2009-08-19 12:13 ADMCONT

drwxrwxrwx 2 65535 65535 4096 2009-08-19 12:15 SPAM

drwxrwxrwx 3 65535 65535 4096 2009-09-18 07:41 onlyForInstall

drwxrwxrwx 2 65535 65535 4096 2009-10-29 13:02 SAPJVM

drwxrwxrwx 4 65535 65535 4096 2009-10-30 16:14 LC

Here what is 65535 ? what it means ?

Usually i will find ownership and groupuser in these two fields . but here its different in the shared directory.

Regards,

Dhanalakshmi

[former_member204746]

This means that there are no mapping between the user in your server that shares the NFS mount and the one who accesses it.

you can add a fake entry in /etc/passwd with that number if you find this annoying

65535 is the highest number you can assign to a user ID.

I am not sure, but UID 65535 is usually mapped to user "nobody".

[Former Member]

Hi,

every login id will has an UID and also the group will have an GID

It seems that you have mounted an NFS(networked file system)

if the source system and the destination system should have the same UID and same GID then you can see the proper owners for the NFS. IF any one is same then you can see the same at NFS side also.

Thanks,

Chaitanya