Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 08:43:36 +0200 (EET) From: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr> To: Vadim Belman <voland@plab.ku.dk> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pwd_mkdb max uid warning. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911180842230.75733-100000@finland.ispro.net.tr> In-Reply-To: <85iu312bp7.fsf@dialup90.apex.dp.ua>
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You are right I guess...
last time I tried to generate a user with ID of 10000
If I remember right...
I have found out that the quotas are not working for that
user and there are some other problems. (I do not remember
very clearly)
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On 17 Nov 1999, Vadim Belman wrote:
> Recently I answered a question concerning maximum valid UID
> value. I had created a new user with UID 1000000 using pw
> utility. Everything went smoothly, but pwd_mkdb warned about
> creation of UID bigger than 65535. I found this piece of code in
> /usr/src/usr.sbin/pwd_mkdb/pw_scan.c:
>
> if (id > USHRT_MAX) {
> warnx("%s > max uid value (%d)", p, USHRT_MAX);
> /*return (0);*/ /* THIS SHOULD NOT BE FATAL! */
> }
>
> I see only one reason for this: for keeping compatibility with old
> utilities which don't use uid_t but relay on unsigned short
> values. Am I right? Is there any other reason? Or, perhaps, this
> code is obsolete and may be removed without harm?
> --
> /Voland Vadim Belman
> E-mail: voland@plab.ku.dk
>
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