From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 1 8:12:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18A0215711; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 08:12:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.1) id RAA21687; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 17:12:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des) To: Steve Ames Cc: ayan@kiwi.datasys.net, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UID Limits References: <199905270318.WAA92247@ns1.cioe.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 01 Jun 1999 17:12:18 +0200 In-Reply-To: Steve Ames's message of "Wed, 26 May 1999 22:18:48 -0500 (EST)" Message-ID: Lines: 16 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [gack, let's get the Cc: right this time around] Steve Ames 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