From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Oct 17 20:29:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0D8137B405 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 20:29:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9I3TfO86881; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 22:29:41 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 22:29:41 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Steve Grandi 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> References: <20011018021143.A53647@nagual.pp.ru> <20011017174800.V68105-100000@regulus.tuc.noao.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011017174800.V68105-100000@regulus.tuc.noao.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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