JOO>> That should not be a problem. Your only limited by how the user id's
JOO>> are stored internally. Does anyone know if they are 32-bit integers or
JOO>> 16 bit integers? If they are 16-bit unsigned then you can go as
JOO>> high as 65535.
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/posix_types.h:
typedef unsigned short __kernel_uid_t;
Also, my vague memory hints me that 65535 isn't a good uid also - some
fucntions return -1 as error value, some bad tools don't check it and do
stupid short-int and signed-unsigned conversions, and you see what it
means. I think there were some problems with nobody being 65535 on some
systems (SunOS?).
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