From owner-freebsd-hackers  Fri Jul 30  7: 9:54 1999
Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 650C314D2A
	for <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 07:09:46 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no)
Received: (from des@localhost)
	by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.1) id QAA56882;
	Fri, 30 Jul 1999 16:09:26 +0200 (CEST)
	(envelope-from des)
To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>,
	Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: No MAXUID ?
References: <57250.933342499@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Date: 30 Jul 1999 16:09:25 +0200
In-Reply-To: Sheldon Hearn's message of "Fri, 30 Jul 1999 15:48:19 +0200"
Message-ID: <xzpr9lq1b6y.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
Lines: 11
X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34
Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> writes:
> Would you be happy with changing things so that only one warning is
> generated? Something like "99999 > max_uid 65535: others may exist"? The
> current behaviour is quite annoying with large passwd files. :-)

Sure, and maybe modify the warning to say something like "legacy
software may not support UIDs larger than 65535"

DES
-- 
Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message