Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 22:17:28 -0700 From: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> Cc: seva@mtelecom.ru, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what is /etc/[s]pwd.db stay for? Message-ID: <3918F0E8.60E66D8A@gorean.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0005092157190.99125-100000@mx.webgiro.com>
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Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
> > pwd_mkdb can't create [s]pwd.db files for 1000000 users.
>
> I believe we still have a limit of 65535 user ids in many places in the
> system, although uid_t is in fact u_int32_t. Or...?
I'm not sure what you mean by "many places in the system." 4.0+ at
least does not have that limitation for system binaries, although you're
taking your life in your hands with other people's stuff.
I have several systems with uid's over the 65535 mark, no problems at
all.
Doug
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