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On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:

> How about the attached patch?  This is an introduction section/chapter,
> so I don't think there should be too many details, since it's not
> relevant to most people anyway.
>
> The warning is more or less copy/pasted from pwd_mkdb(8).

If you give the warning and mention that the UIDs can be larger, you
should also document how large they actually can be.

regards,
le

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