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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 12:26:59 +0200
From: Francesco Casadei <fcasadei@inwind.it>
To: BOOTSTASHA@aol.com
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Subject: Re: adding a user
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On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 08:53:15PM -0400, BOOTSTASHA@aol.com wrote:
> I am trying to add a user who has a UID of 38445 (given by my instructor)=
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> The manual says that you can't have an ID over 32000. How can this be=20
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It works on FreeBSD 4.4RC:

# pw useradd user -u 38445 -g users
# pw usershow user
user:*:38445:1001::0:0:User &:/home/user:/bin/sh
# pw userdel user
# pw usershow user
pw: no such user `user'

=46rom sys/types.h:

typedef __uint32_t  u_int32_t;
=2E..
typedef u_int32_t   uid_t;      /* user id */

=46rom i386/include/ansi.h:

typedef    unsigned int         __uint32_t;

So seems that the uid can be a number in the range 0..4294967295 (i.e.
2^32 - 1) for i386.

Actually this number is limited to 2147483647:

# pw useradd user -u 4294967295 -g users
pwd_mkdb: 2147483647 > recommended max uid value (65535)
# pw usershow user
user:*:2147483647:1001::0:0:User &:/home/user:/bin/sh

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