Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 14:17:28 -0600 From: Nathan Ahlstrom <nrahlstr@winternet.com> To: "Eric D. Fehr" <fehr@idirect.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UID > 64K question Message-ID: <19990304141728.A19092@winternet.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990304143033.007e8dc0@proteus.idirect.com>; from Eric D. Fehr on Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 02:30:33PM -0500 References: <3.0.5.32.19990304143033.007e8dc0@proteus.idirect.com>
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"Eric D. Fehr" <fehr@idirect.com> wrote: > Why do the password file recompilation routines warn if a UID is greater > than 64K, when the numeric type used for uid (uid_t) is cast as a 32 bit > unsigned integer? > > The adduser perl script has 32000 defined as the max uid, but we have had > no problems whatsoever taking this up to around 80K so far. > > Is it just paranoia that someone will code something that casts uid into a > 16bit signed/unsigned int? There is some issue with quotas and large UID. There was recently a discussion on the hackers mailing list about this. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=302458+0+archive/1999/freebsd-hackers/19990221.freebsd-hackers You should be able to read the entire thread from this pointer. Good Luck, Nathan -- Nathan Ahlstrom nrahlstr@winternet.com http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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