From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Sep 15 23:42:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E71537B423 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 23:42:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA40788; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 23:42:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <39C31667.7CDCDF4B@gorean.org> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 23:42:47 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-091 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/20985: Cannot create pwd.db with passwd file exceeding 65535 users. References: <200009040920.CAA95199@freefall.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > The following reply was made to PR misc/20985; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav > To: lenwilliams@aplus.net > Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: misc/20985: Cannot create pwd.db with passwd file exceeding 65535 users. > Date: 04 Sep 2000 11:14:06 +0200 > > lenwilliams@aplus.net writes: > > pwd_mkdb generates the following error upon reaching uid of 65535. > > It's just a warning. Some file systems (e.g. NFS) can't handle UIDs > above 65535. Just FYI, nfs v3 has no problems with UID > 65535. Doug -- "The dead cannot be seduced." - Kai, "Lexx" Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message