From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 30 15: 1: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from lists01.iafrica.com (lists01.iafrica.com [196.7.0.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86B3637B424 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 15:01:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@uunet.co.za) Received: from nwl.fw.uunet.co.za ([196.31.2.162]) by lists01.iafrica.com with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #2) id 14uLiy-0000o8-00; Tue, 01 May 2001 00:00:56 +0200 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za (8.8.8/8.6.9) id AAA02661; Tue, 1 May 2001 00:00:55 +0200 (SAST) Received: by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za via recvmail id 2516; Tue May 1 00:00:02 2001 Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.fw.uunet.co.za) by axl.fw.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14uLi5-0006ln-00; Tue, 01 May 2001 00:00:01 +0200 To: Yoshihiro Koya Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A question about max_uid In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 01 May 2001 06:56:56 +0900." <20010501065656R.koya@math.yokohama-cu.ac.jp> Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 00:00:01 +0200 Message-ID: <26026.988668001@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> From: Sheldon Hearn Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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