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From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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Subject: UID > 65536 works ?
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I removed the UID > 65536 check in pw_mkdb, and then created a uid of 250000.
Everything appeared to work as would be expected, is there any reason this
check is there, other than historical?  And can we remove it?

-Crh

    Charles Henrich     Michigan State University     henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu

                     http://rs560.msu.edu/~henrich/