From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 8 06:33:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA26826 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 06:33:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from elvis.vnet.net (elvis.vnet.net [166.82.1.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA26807 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 06:33:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: from dignus.com (ponds.vnet.net [166.82.177.48]) by elvis.vnet.net (8.8.8/8.8.4) with ESMTP id JAA01024; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 09:33:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lakes.dignus.com (lakes [10.0.0.3]) by dignus.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA19852; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 10:12:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.dignus.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) id JAA17052; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 09:37:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 09:37:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199810081337.JAA17052@lakes.dignus.com> To: casola@coopgbourg.com.ar, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Max UID too low In-Reply-To: <361CB320.C66C0195@coopgbourg.com.ar> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I need to recompile kernel (i think) to get Max UID over 65535, because > with adduser/chpass/pwd_mkdb etc i have the following error (example): > > pwd_mkdb: 80712 > max uid value (65535) > pwd_mkdb: 80713 > max uid value (65535) > pwd_mkdb: 80714 > max uid value (65535) > pwd_mkdb: 80715 > max uid value (65535) > > which values or variables i need to touch/modify in kernel or in any > other way to get MAX UID over 65535???? > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > You have greater than 80 thousand users on your system? If not, I'd try picking a smaller number. If you didn't choose the number; then whatever did has problems... I believe a UID larger than an (unsigned) 16 bits will break some NFS implementations. - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message