Registry question

[Kurt Nowak]

All-

Is it normal after you delete a person and account that the deleted information remains in the local registry? I added person "peter" and account "peter.staff.none" and then did a synch in edrgy to update the local registry. After that, I deleted those new person and account objects and ran synch again, upon which it complained that the old account is "marked for no login" or something like that....upon doing edrgy -l, I noticed that the old deleted registry objects remained in the local registry with GID and UID both -1. Is this normal?? How can i totally delete these old objects? What does -1 mean??

The "Administering the Domain/OS registry" manual doesnt say anything about this...perhaps this is a bug?? I would think that synch would delete any local registry objects to match the network registry...

[Jim Rees]

I can't answer your other questions, but "-1" is "nobody". By
convention, this is the completely unprivileged user, able to do only
those things that are permitted to everyone. This convention lives on
in linux today, although they seem to have changed it to -2:

% grep nobody /etc/passwd
nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/nonexistent:/bin/sh

[Kurt Nowak]

Thanks, Jim. Thats why I thought....I guess I was a little confused about UID/GID 65534 vs. -1. Yeah, the other question was the main question, but I will figure it out. I might have a corrupt registry per somethign that was stated about rgyd in the Apollo FAQ...