Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 17:08:04 -0800 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Maximum accounts per system (?) Message-ID: <15746.982285684@monkeys.com>
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In the man page for adduser(8) I see the following:
uid Automatically generated or your choice, must be less than 32000.
I have a number of questions about this ``magic number'' 32,000.
Where did this come from? What is its significance?
More importantly, I have to ask... Are there really no FreeBSD systems
in existance that have more than 32,000 user accounts??
I would have hoped that I could have gotten at least 65535 accounts before
FreeBSD ran out of steam!
Also, looking in /usr/include/sys/types.h I see that the `uid_t' type is
defined to be the same as a `u_int32_t'. The implication of that fact
would seem to be that I really _ought_ to be able to create at least about
4 billion separate accounts on one single FreeBSD system.
So what gives? Why can't I?
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