Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 00:00:01 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: Yoshihiro Koya <Yoshihiro.Koya@math.yokohama-cu.ac.jp> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A question about max_uid Message-ID: <26026.988668001@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 May 2001 06:56:56 %2B0900." <20010501065656R.koya@math.yokohama-cu.ac.jp>
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On Tue, 01 May 2001 06:56:56 +0900, Yoshihiro Koya wrote: > Hello, > chpass: updating the database... > pwd_mkdb: 2147483647 > recommended max uid value (65535) Gee, that message looks familiar. ;-) The warning was a concession that I implemented after discussions with BDE. The way we want to go for now is to have the entire system uid_t-clean (currently unsigned 32-bit) but to issue warnings from appropriate utilities when values that can't be represented by an unsigned short. > Added to this, the above pwd_mkdb commands tells me that > the recommended max uid value is 65535, which is > a 16-bit UID, and this value 65535 differs from the restricted value > of pw command. > It might be better to unify such a recommended UID value on the > system. Absolutely. If you have the time, that'd be great! Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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