Mapping of RIDs to uid_t and gid_t

[Gerald W. Carter]

On Sun, 5 Apr 1998, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

> On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, David Collier-Brown wrote:
> 
> >  Or are they like
> > 	Unix uids and gids, separate and each populated
> > 	starting with zero?
> 
> what do you mean by this?
> 

For example, root user has a uid of 0 and the root ( or wheel ) group has
a gid of 0.  These are totally difference number spaces.  I think this is
what he means. 



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