On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 11:24:56PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> I hope you are aware that user id 65534 is used by user namespacing
> (i.e. CLONE_NEWUSER) too, and in that context is probably much more
> prominently visible to users than in the NFS context. The fact that
> the user/group is called "nfsnobody" is quite misleading if most users
> see it only in the user namespacing context which has zero
> relationship to NFS.

Is there any security implication of re-using 65534 for user
namespacing, since NFS was using it before?  Why not assign a new uid
for user namespacing?
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