[Buildroot] [git commit] system/skeleton: use uid/gid 65534 for nobody/nogroup

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Fri Aug 26 13:39:42 UTC 2016


commit: https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=9c67af2c524ad2b6585af2f5e43f76dacd7cc109
branch: https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=refs/heads/master

As recently discussed on lwn.net: https://lwn.net/Articles/695478/

The kernel has special behaviour for uid/gid 65534:

1. The kernel maps UIDs > 65535 to it when some subsystem/API/fs
   only supports 16bit UIDs, but a 32bit UID is passed to it.

2. it's used by the kernel's user namespacing as the internal UID
   that external UIDs are mapped to that don't have any local mapping.

3. It's used by NFS for all user IDs that cannot be mapped locally if
   UID mapping is enabled.

Most distributions already map (or are in the progress of changing)
nobody/nogroup to the 65534 uid/gid, so lets do so as well.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>
Acked-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout at mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>
---
 system/skeleton/etc/group  | 2 +-
 system/skeleton/etc/passwd | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/system/skeleton/etc/group b/system/skeleton/etc/group
index c813da2..76346b3 100644
--- a/system/skeleton/etc/group
+++ b/system/skeleton/etc/group
@@ -22,5 +22,5 @@ plugdev:x:46:
 staff:x:50:
 lock:x:54:
 netdev:x:82:
-nogroup:x:99:
 users:x:100:
+nogroup:x:65534:
diff --git a/system/skeleton/etc/passwd b/system/skeleton/etc/passwd
index 883265a..d8281d2 100644
--- a/system/skeleton/etc/passwd
+++ b/system/skeleton/etc/passwd
@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ sync:x:4:100:sync:/bin:/bin/sync
 mail:x:8:8:mail:/var/spool/mail:/bin/false
 www-data:x:33:33:www-data:/var/www:/bin/false
 operator:x:37:37:Operator:/var:/bin/false
-nobody:x:99:99:nobody:/home:/bin/false
+nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/home:/bin/false


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