I've got 2 linux boxes and a Windows 10 box with various shares in an incestual cross mounting scheme. The 2 linux boxes agree on uid and gid for various users, my Windows does not.

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So it means, if you create a user account on affected Linux systems with any UID greater than INT_MAX value, the PolicyKit component will allow you to execute any systemctl command successfully.