diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 23000de55..f3498d32b 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
 	* Source/NSDate.m: GSTimeNow() remove volatile typespec and move
 	initialisation of interval in the hope of fixing a problem with
 	float operations.  In any case, the code is tidier.
-	* Tools/gdomap.c: If started as root, try to become user nobody.
+	* Tools/gdomap.c: If started as root, try to become user nobody
+	before resorting to uid -2 (like NFS).
 
 2001-05-03  Adam Fedor  <fedor@gnu.org>
 
diff --git a/Tools/gdomap.c b/Tools/gdomap.c
index f8645e55c..e989fff24 100644
--- a/Tools/gdomap.c
+++ b/Tools/gdomap.c
@@ -4229,7 +4229,7 @@ printf(
     }
   else
     {
-      int	uid = -1;
+      int	uid = -2;
 #ifdef	HAVE_PWD
 #ifdef	HAVE_GETPWNAM
       struct passwd *pw = getpwnam("nobody");