From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 15 17: 8: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.monkeys.com (236.dsl9226.rcsis.com [63.92.26.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A66C37B4EC for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 17:08:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from monkeys.com (236.dsl9226.rcsis.com [63.92.26.236]) by mail.monkeys.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1G184d15749 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 17:08:04 -0800 (PST) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Maximum accounts per system (?) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 17:08:04 -0800 Message-ID: <15746.982285684@monkeys.com> From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message