On Tuesday 8 October 2024 17:07:53 BST Kilian Hanich via devel wrote: > Am 08.10.24 um 17:32 schrieb Lennart Poettering: > > > For example, I am fundamentally opposed to the model > > these systems generally pursue of turning UID numbers into centrally, > > organization-wide managed concepts. > > Wait a second, some organization have more than 70k people (and in this > day and age, they all require their own accounts) and UIDs are (on > Linux) 16bit numbers (which means a max of 65536 possible values). > > Does somebody know or have an idea of how they make that work? > I worked at a place with more than 70k user accounts; we used 32 bit UIDs on Linux for this purpose.
Linux UIDs are 32 bit since 2.4 days, not 16 bit. -- Simon Farnsworth -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
