From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 9 22:17:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6231E37B72B for ; Tue, 9 May 2000 22:17:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA83422; Tue, 9 May 2000 22:17:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <3918F0E8.60E66D8A@gorean.org> Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 22:17:28 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0508 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrzej Bialecki Cc: seva@mtelecom.ru, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what is /etc/[s]pwd.db stay for? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message