Matthew Vernon <matt...@debian.org> writes: > Here's a patch to document the 32-bit nature of UIDs, in line with Ben's > suggestion (which seems sound to me). I've added a note to the effect > that useradd won't use the higher-numbered UIDs, which seems sensible as > a) that requires no changes to useradd b) there are some systems you > might want to NIS with which still have 16 bits only.
Looks good to me. Thank you! Seconded. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87y4oud6en....@hope.eyrie.org