From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 22 16:53:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from spork.pantherdragon.org (spork.pantherdragon.org [206.29.168.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A237437B403 for ; Wed, 22 May 2002 16:53:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spark.techno.pagans (spark.techno.pagans [4.61.202.145]) by spork.pantherdragon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AC7E471DA; Wed, 22 May 2002 16:53:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pantherdragon.org (speck.techno.pagans [172.21.42.2]) by spark.techno.pagans (Postfix) with ESMTP id F12C926C17; Wed, 22 May 2002 16:53:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3CEC2F81.718CBE37@pantherdragon.org> Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 16:53:37 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Pentchev Cc: Jamie Heckford , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UID Limit References: <001901c201a5$25b8e0e0$4464a8c0@JAMIEHECKFORD> <20020522192114.M349@straylight.oblivion.bg> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Pentchev wrote: > > On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:27:12PM +0100, Jamie Heckford wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I was wondering if anyone would be able to tell me what the limit is on a > > UID? Ie what is the highest integer it can go up to..... > > > > I suppose as well some applications have different values.. or am I > > completly wrong :) > > The functions that deal with user ID's take a parameter of type uid_t. > The uid_t type is defined in as u_int32_t. Hence, at least > theoretically, FreeBSD supports uid's in the range 0 to 4G-1. It supports them that high, yes, but I believe they wrap at 99999. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message