PID 1 is not allowed to do nss lookups because this may take a long time or even deadlock. While at it, the comparisons are reordered to do the "easy" comparisons which only require a string comparison first. Delay parsing of the UID until it is really necessary. The result is the same, because we know that "root" and "nobody" parse as valid.
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