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Date:      Fri, 5 Dec 1997 11:15:11 -0800 (PST)
From:      Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>
To:        Paul Griffith <paulg@interlog.com>
Cc:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Monteiro?= <jm@pluriproj.pt>, chat@hub.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Off-Topic Question
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.95.971205111310.20201D-100000@paladio>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.971205124049.10093A-100000@shell1.interlog.com>

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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

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