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Date:      Tue, 1 Jun 1999 10:14:29 -0500 (EST)
From:      Steve Ames <steve@cioe.com>
To:        des@flood.ping.uio.no, steve@cioe.com
Cc:        ayan@kiwi.datasys.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: UID Limits
Message-ID:  <199906011514.KAA11100@ns1.cioe.com>
In-Reply-To: <xzplne43qgd.fsf@localhost.ping.uio.no>

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Thanks for the answers on this. This certainly makes my life
simpler. That 65K limit was about to become real annoying :)

					-Steve

> From des@flood.ping.uio.no  Tue Jun  1 10:12:21 1999
> To: Steve Ames <steve@cioe.com>
> Cc: ayan@kiwi.datasys.net, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG,
>         freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: UID Limits
> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
> Date: 01 Jun 1999 17:12:18 +0200
>
> [gack, let's get the Cc: right this time around]
>
> Steve Ames <steve@cioe.com> writes:
> > The question is "What is the maximum UID?". Its either a 2 or 4
> > byte unsigned integer. The filesystem seems to accept 4, pwd_mkdb
> > complains about larger than 2 but lets you do it...
>
> pwd_mkdb warns about UIDs greater than USHRT_MAX because some old
> (third-party) software stores UIDs in unsigned short ints instead of
> uid_t and therefore does not grok large UIDs. The warning is harmless
> (unless you run some of that old software) and should most certainly
> not be changed or removed.
>
> DES
> -- 
> Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no
>


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