Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 23:30:06 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Yann Ramin <yramin@redshift.com> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Large UIDs (>65536) Message-ID: <200006100630.XAA01530@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 09 Jun 2000 23:22:46 PDT." <00060923222602.26335@atp.atpn.com>
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> Good point :) I just got a little freaked by these friendly warning messages > from pwd_mkdb: > > "/etc/pw.Z26392" 15 lines, 319 characters > chpass: updating the database... > pwd_mkdb: 140000 > recommended max uid value (65535) > chpass: done > > I know the many UNIXes still have a cap at 65535 (is Linux one of them?), and > I interpeted that as an error message, not a warning. I was silly :) Actually, it's wire protocols that are the issue; NFSv2 in particular. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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