Rather than literally "nobody", try using uid/gid = 65534 as

[rsync/rsync.git] / testsuite / rsync.fns

diff --git a/testsuite/rsync.fns b/testsuite/rsync.fns
index 4682b4f..6a06a92 100644 (file)
--- a/testsuite/rsync.fns
+++ b/testsuite/rsync.fns
@@ -209,6 +209,12 @@ use chroot = no
 hosts allow = localhost, 127.0.0.1
 log file = $logfile
 
+# We don't know if this machine has "nobody" or "nogroup", so use the quasi-canonical
+# values of (uint16_t) -2. 
+
+uid = 65534
+gid = 65534
+
 [test-from]
        path = $FROM
        read only = yes