From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 28 17:22:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from flip.tenbit.pl (flip.tenbit.pl [195.205.163.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0013A37B724 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:22:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from przemek@flip.tenbit.pl) Received: (from przemek@localhost) by flip.tenbit.pl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id DAA00762 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 03:18:19 +0200 From: Przemyslaw Brojewski Message-Id: <200103290118.DAA00762@flip.tenbit.pl> Subject: Are large uids supported? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 29 Mar 101 03:18:19 +0200 (CEST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, Man page for adduser(8) sais: uid Automatically generated or your choice, must be less then 32000 I have to setup a mail server, that supposedly will have rather large number of users in the near futer. I expect to hit the 32000 limit in a 2 months or (optimistically) 6 months, and eventually go 100 000 and more in a year (or one year and a half). But to the point. Does FreeBSD support large uids (eg. 32bit long) in the kernel the filesystem, and apps (dump, tar, and the like) If not, will that support come in the near future? (that is, less then 6 months) Or if it's not in -STABLE, is it in -CURRENT? And easy questions :) Why this limit has been choosen in adduser(8) while /etc/passwd lists users with uids greater than 32000, namely tty, kmem and nobody? Przemek Brojewski. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message