From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 30 0:36:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from lists01.iafrica.com (lists01.iafrica.com [196.7.0.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3200037B423 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 00:36:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@uunet.co.za) Received: from nwl.fw.uunet.co.za ([196.31.2.162]) by lists01.iafrica.com with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #2) id 14u8EU-0000Gb-00; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 09:36:34 +0200 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za (8.8.8/8.6.9) id JAA18626; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 09:36:31 +0200 (SAST) Received: by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za via recvmail id 18474; Mon Apr 30 09:35:50 2001 Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.fw.uunet.co.za) by axl.fw.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14u8Dm-0003EC-00; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 09:35:50 +0200 To: Yoshihiro Koya Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A question about max_uid In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 27 Apr 2001 00:15:55 +0900." <20010427001555G.koya@pluto.math.yokohama-cu.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 09:35:50 +0200 Message-ID: <12411.988616150@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> From: Sheldon Hearn Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 27 Apr 2001 00:15:55 +0900, Yoshihiro Koya wrote: > Currently, I have nobody (uid = 65534) account as a default account on > my box. It might be easy to guess that the maximum is greater than > 65533. My question is why such a restricion still remains. From what I remember from my communication with Bruce Evans, the "restrictions" (mostly unenforced" in our tree are there to protect old software compiled to use 16-bit UID values. By allowing unsigned 32-bit UID values in the system, you open the door for problems with software that uses smaller UID values. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message