Thanks for the answers on this. This certainly makes my life
simpler. That 65K limit was about to become real annoying :)
-Steve
> From [email protected] Tue Jun 1 10:12:21 1999
> To: Steve Ames <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected], [email protected],
> [email protected]
> Subject: Re: UID Limits
> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <[email protected]>
> Date: 01 Jun 1999 17:12:18 +0200
>
> [gack, let's get the Cc: right this time around]
>
> Steve Ames <[email protected]> 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 - [email protected]
>
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