From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 1 11:46:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt010nb9.san.rr.com (dt010nb9.san.rr.com [204.210.12.185]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4402315A9A for ; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 11:46:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt010nb9.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA31423; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 11:46:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 11:46:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt010nb9.san.rr.com To: Greg Lewis Cc: Evren Yurteen , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: best way to maintain user accounts In-Reply-To: <199909010612.PAA26821@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- "My mama told me, my mama said, 'don't cry.' She said, 'you're too young a man to have as many women you got.' I looked at my mother dear and didn't even crack a smile. I said, 'If women kill me, I don't mind dyin!'" - John Belushi as "Joliet" Jake Blues, "I Don't Know" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message