Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 22:29:41 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Steve Grandi <grandi@noao.edu> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Apache port change from nobody:nogroup to www:www planned Message-ID: <20011017222941.A72535@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20011017174800.V68105-100000@regulus.tuc.noao.edu> References: <20011018021143.A53647@nagual.pp.ru> <20011017174800.V68105-100000@regulus.tuc.noao.edu>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
In the last episode (Oct 17), Steve Grandi said: > Sigh: I've had UID 80 here at NOAO for 18 years (since 4.1BSD days on a > VAX). Time for a change! > > What is the "upper limit" for system UIDs and where is it documented? 2^32, with a limit of 2^16 if you're using NFSv2, I believe. And you don't have to change your own uid if you don't want to; just create a www user with another uid and the port will use that. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20011017222941.A72535>