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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
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Subject: Re: No MAXUID ? 
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On 30 Jul 1999 15:38:30 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:

> How many times do I have to go through this?

Until I stuff a comment in the source that explains this. :-)

> There is no "artificial limitation in pwd_mkdb". pwd_mkdb warns
> against UIDs larger than 65535 because legacy software that uses
> unsigned short instead of uid_t will break with large UIDs.

Would you be happy with changing things so that only one warning is
generated? Something like "99999 > max_uid 65535: others may exist"? The
current behaviour is quite annoying with large passwd files. :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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