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From: Daniel Quappe (quappeerster.de)
Date: Thu Mar 01 2001 - 10:46:57 CST

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    hey roman,

        yes i did.
        if i change the uid of the user nobody to "-3" (e.g.)
        in my /etc/passwd, syslog changes to:
        "... unable to set uid to -3, current uid: 65534"

        any help for you?
        greets,

    daniel

    Roman Drahtmueller schrieb:

    > >
    > > hey list,
    > >
    > > a few minutes ago i update my proftpd-package
    > > to rc3.
    > > now i always get the follwoing error-message
    > > with a "cnnection failed" response.
    > > syslog:
    > > "... unable to set uid to -2, current uid: 65534"
    > >
    > > i searched proftpd.org, but did not find anything
    > > about it.
    > > anybody out there got the same problems?!
    > >
    > > many thanks in advance,
    > > greets,
    > >
    > > daniel
    >
    > Did you use the suse package from the ftp server?
    >
    > Roman.
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