Re: UID Limits

eebsd.org, > freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: UID Limits > From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav > Date: 01 Jun 1999 17:12:18 +0200 > > [gack, let's get the Cc: right this time around] > > Steve Ames writes: > > The question is "What is the maximum UID

Re: UID Limits

[gack, let's get the Cc: right this time around] Steve Ames writes: > The question is "What is the maximum UID?". Its either a 2 or 4 > byte unsigned integer. The filesystem seems to accept 4, pwd_mkdb > complains about larger than 2 but lets you do it... pwd_mkdb warns about UIDs greater than U

Re: UID Limits

Ayan George writes: > Yes, pwd_mkdb compares the UID with USHRT_MAX. I wonder if there > is a macro that defines the maximum GID and UID like: It's just a warning which was put there because some software incorrectly stores UIDs in unsigned short ints rather than uid_ts and thus does not grok la

Re: UID Limits

Dunno. The IPC code uses ushrt as the type for uid... couldn't find anything else that does. Is this vestigial? I'm CC-ing this to 'freebsd-hackers' since I think we're outside the pervue of 'freebsd-isp' at this point... The question is "What is the maximum UID?". Its either a 2 or 4 byte unsig