From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 31 23:13:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au (ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.246.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19173153B7 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 23:12:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glewis@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au) Received: (from glewis@localhost) by ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA26821; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 15:42:04 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from glewis) From: Greg Lewis Message-Id: <199909010612.PAA26821@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: best way to maintain user accounts In-Reply-To: <37CB8C3F.8D730D3D@ispro.net.tr> from Evren Yurteen at "Aug 31, 1999 10:03:11 am" To: Evren Yurteen Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 15:42:04 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL56 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > what if we are an big ISP and have 60thousand accounts and heading to > 70thousand in next year or something? what happens when you pass 65534? > I mean is not nobody account the last account you can have there? > > Evren Well, /usr/include/sys/types.h lists a uid_t as u_int32_t, which would indicate that UIDs can go up to 4 billion, however the account adding utilities like pw and adduser barf at a uid of anything more than the maximum unsigned short (65535). Maybe its that the uid range is intended to be extended but all the functionality hasn't been fully enabled? -- Greg Lewis glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Computing Officer +61 8 8303 5083 Teletraffic Research Centre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message