From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 1 8:14:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.cioe.com (ns1.cioe.com [204.120.165.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67FD415745; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 08:14:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@ns1.cioe.com) Received: (from steve@localhost) by ns1.cioe.com (8.9.2/8.9.3) id KAA11100; Tue, 1 Jun 1999 10:14:29 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from steve) Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 10:14:29 -0500 (EST) From: Steve Ames Message-Id: <199906011514.KAA11100@ns1.cioe.com> To: des@flood.ping.uio.no, steve@cioe.com Subject: Re: UID Limits Cc: ayan@kiwi.datasys.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for the answers on this. This certainly makes my life simpler. That 65K limit was about to become real annoying :) -Steve > From des@flood.ping.uio.no Tue Jun 1 10:12:21 1999 > To: Steve Ames > Cc: ayan@kiwi.datasys.net, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, > freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: UID Limits > From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav > Date: 01 Jun 1999 17:12:18 +0200 > > [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