From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 26 08:51:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA20526 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 08:51:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.io.org (post.io.org [198.133.36.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA20520 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 08:51:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zap.io.org (taob@zap.io.org [198.133.36.81]) by post.io.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA02940; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 11:49:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 11:49:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Tao To: Karl Denninger cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: UID < 65535? In-Reply-To: <199608252344.SAA11342@Jupiter.mcs.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 25 Aug 1996, Karl Denninger wrote: > > So why is this being blocked? Interoperability with NIS and NFS (all the more reason to hate them). I took out the little warning on our systems here, since we are assigning blocks of userid's in the 500000+ range for some of our customers. We don't use NIS here, but NFS is another story... :-/ -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org, taob@ican.net) Senior Systems and Network Administrator, Internet Canada Corp. "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"