A good reason to use 32bit UID would be to match UIDs with other systems
that use 32bit UIDs (like Novell NDS). Otherwise one has to keep
translation tables or use a translation algorithm or something else not so
good.
Sincerely,
Schlomo Schapiro
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On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Ely Levy wrote:
> What exaclly do you need 32 UID for?
>
> Ely Levy
> System group
> Hebrew University
> Jerusalem Israel
>
>
>
> On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Ira Abramov wrote:
>
> |
> |a while ago I asked if anyone knows about the progress of linux
> |supporting 32 bit UIDs instead of the current 16, and nobody would
> |know. now I see it's part of the latest 2.3 and 2.4-test kernels, and
> |there's only one line to remove manually from the .config file (not a
> |menu option).
> |
> |but I understand there are a few binaries like ls to recompile once I
> |have this new kernel installed, so here are a few questions I could not
> |find the answers to in mailing list archives, and maybe someone here
> |knows:
> |
> |a. why is it still not the default to have highUID in current
> |distributions? does it break anything major?
> |
> |b. other than ls, and I suppose ps, do I need to recompile glibc? other
> |binaries?
> |
> |thanks!
> |Ira.
> |
> |--
> |Ira Abramov, GNU/Linux advocate.
> |(@- "Akamai, Google, MicroSoft, Sun, Enquire, Pixar,
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> | -- CS, answering to Linus, 3/7/2000
> |
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