From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Dec 5 11:18:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA27023 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 11:18:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from paladio.canonware.com (canonware.com [206.184.206.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA27011 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 11:17:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jasone@canonware.com) Received: from localhost (jasone@localhost) by paladio.canonware.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA20540; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 11:15:11 -0800 Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 11:15:11 -0800 (PST) From: Jason Evans X-Sender: jasone@paladio To: Paul Griffith cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Monteiro?= , chat@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Off-Topic Question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Paul Griffith wrote: > If I am correct all BSD systems should support up to 65536 GID. I think > the GID is a 8 bit number so 0 to 65536 groups. I am not sure how it > handles UID, but then again I yet to see a Unix system with over 64K users Uhh, I'm confused. 8 bits ==> 256 16 bits ==> 65536 Which do you mean? Jason Jason Evans Email: [jasone@canonware.com] Home phone: [(650) 856-8204] Quote: ["Invention is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration" - Thomas Edison]