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From: Yann Ramin <yramin@redshift.com>
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To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Large UIDs (>65536)
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 23:22:46 -0700
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Good point :)  I just got a little freaked by these friendly warning messages 
from pwd_mkdb:

"/etc/pw.Z26392" 15 lines, 319 characters
chpass: updating the database...
pwd_mkdb: 140000 > recommended max uid value (65535)
chpass: done    

I know the many UNIXes still have a cap at 65535 (is Linux one of them?), and 
I interpeted that as an error message, not a warning.  I was silly :)

Yann

On Fri, 09 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was just wondering if anyone has considered allowing larger UIDs
> > (unsigned long) on a FreeBSD system?  What would this require changing? 
> > From what I can tell, the code is typedefed so if you go recompile
> > everything, you should be ok.  Am I missing anything here?
>
> How about this line from <sys/types.h>:
>
> typedef        u_int32_t       uid_t;          /* user id */
>
> It pays to do your own research - then you only get to look silly in
> front of yourself. 8)


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