[gack, let's get the Cc: right this time around] Steve Ames <st...@cioe.com> writes: > The question is "What is the maximum UID?". Its either a 2 or 4 > byte unsigned integer. The filesystem seems to accept 4, pwd_mkdb > complains about larger than 2 but lets you do it...
pwd_mkdb warns about UIDs greater than USHRT_MAX because some old (third-party) software stores UIDs in unsigned short ints instead of uid_t and therefore does not grok large UIDs. The warning is harmless (unless you run some of that old software) and should most certainly not be changed or removed. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
