Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 15:42:04 +0930 (CST) From: Greg Lewis <glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au> To: Evren Yurteen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: best way to maintain user accounts Message-ID: <199909010612.PAA26821@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <37CB8C3F.8D730D3D@ispro.net.tr> from Evren Yurteen at "Aug 31, 1999 10:03:11 am"
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> 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? -- Greg Lewis glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Computing Officer +61 8 8303 5083 Teletraffic Research Centre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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