Re: UID Limits

Ayan George a...@kiwi.datasys.net writes: Yes, pwd_mkdb compares the UID with USHRT_MAX. I wonder if there is a macro that defines the maximum GID and UID like: It's just a warning which was put there because some software incorrectly stores UIDs in unsigned short ints rather than uid_ts and

Re: UID Limits

[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

Re: UID Limits

-...@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UID Limits From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav d...@flood.ping.uio.no Date: 01 Jun 1999 17:12:18 +0200 [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

Re: UID Limits

Dunno. The IPC code uses ushrt as the type for uid... couldn't find anything else that does. Is this vestigial? I'm CC-ing this to 'freebsd-hackers' since I think we're outside the pervue of 'freebsd-isp' at this point... The question is What is the maximum UID?. Its either a 2 or 4 byte