On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:43:34 -0400 Brynet <bry...@gmail.com> wrote: > Robert wrote: > > Number of local user accounts is liminted by the available user > > id's. Since that's a 16 bit limit and if you stick to the 'from uid > > 1000 up' rule, that'd leave you with 64536 possible accounts. > > Hi, > > Thats wrong, uid_t and gid_t are 32-bit unsigned integers on at least > i386. > > ./sys/_types.h:typedef __uint32_t __uid_t; /* user id * > ./sys/types.h:typedef __uid_t uid_t; /* user id */ > ./sys/_types.h:typedef __uint32_t __gid_t; /* group id */ > ./sys/types.h:typedef __gid_t gid_t; /* group id */ > > SUS only says that uid_t and gid_t must be "integer types", without > referring to signedness or size. > > Hope that helps. > > -Brynet > > -Brynet
And here i was thinking about being limited to 256*256 uid's. uid 123456 actually works. The ugly, now i have to find out where i got the 16bit constraint from. Thanks! :) Atleast it still should take care of 'thoundsands of accounts'. ;) - Robert
