Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 11:46:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> To: Greg Lewis <glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: Evren Yurteen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: best way to maintain user accounts Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909011144580.31203-100000@dt010nb9.san.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <199909010612.PAA26821@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au>
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On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Greg Lewis wrote:
> > 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?
The system can handle the max, but there is a lot of legacy stuff
that's not part of the base system (like ports, other software, etc.) that
will choke on UID's > 65535. If you're competent in finding and fixing
these problems with software that doesn't come from freebsd, you're good
to go.
HTH,
Doug
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