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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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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
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no


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