From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030922 Description of problem: On RHEL 3 x86_64 all 32bit UID's and GID's map to 65534, regardless of filesystem type. See http://www.x86-64.org/lists/discuss/msg04027.html for more discussion on the topic. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.21, all releases How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. touch foo 2. chown 11223344 foo 3. ls -l foo Actual Results: ls shows it's owned by nfsnobody (uid 65534) Expected Results: The owner should change to uid 11223344. Additional info:
Created attachment 100151 [details] Patch to fix 32bit UID's Patch fetched from the URL above and rediffed against 2.4.21-9.0.3.EL sources. Fixes the problem for me.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 117435 ***
An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2004-433.html