overflowuid

Submitted by admin on Thu, 2006-06-01 01:37

Some filesystems only support 16-bit UIDs, although in Linux UIDs are 32 bits. When one of these filesystems is mounted with writes enabled, any UID that would exceed 65535 is translated to a fixed value before being written to disk.

This sysctl allows you to change the value of the fixed UID. The default is 65534.