Date: 01 Jun 1999 17:12:18 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: Steve Ames <steve@cioe.com> Cc: ayan@kiwi.datasys.net, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UID Limits Message-ID: <xzplne43qgd.fsf@localhost.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Steve Ames's message of "Wed, 26 May 1999 22:18:48 -0500 (EST)" References: <199905270318.WAA92247@ns1.cioe.com>
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[gack, let's get the Cc: right this time around] Steve Ames <steve@cioe.com> writes: > The question is "What is the maximum UID?". Its either a 2 or 4 > byte unsigned integer. The filesystem seems to accept 4, pwd_mkdb > complains about larger than 2 but lets you do it... pwd_mkdb warns about UIDs greater than USHRT_MAX because some old (third-party) software stores UIDs in unsigned short ints instead of uid_t and therefore does not grok large UIDs. The warning is harmless (unless you run some of that old software) and should most certainly not be changed or removed. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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