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.

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Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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