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Subject: Re: Maximum accounts per system (?)
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matt@gsicomp.on.ca (Matthew Emmerton) writes:

> I noticed a quote in the source for pwd_mkdb that stated that "some software
> assumes that IDs are short."  So most likely the 32k restriction is due to
> historical reasons.

I don't have my references at easy hand to double-check, but I believe
that NFSv2 allows only 15 or 16 bits for uid.  


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