Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 00:15:55 +0900 From: Yoshihiro Koya <Yoshihiro.Koya@math.yokohama-cu.ac.jp> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: A question about max_uid Message-ID: <20010427001555G.koya@pluto.math.yokohama-cu.ac.jp>
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Hello, I found the following in the man page of pw(8). > -u min,max, -i min,max > These options set the minimum and maximum user and group > ids allocated for new accounts and groups created by pw. > The default values for each is 1000 minimum and 32000 maxi- > mum. min and max are both numbers, where max must be > greater than min, and both must be between 0 and 32767. In > general, user and group ids less than 100 are reserved for > use by the system, and numbers greater than 32000 may also > be reserved for special purposes (used by some system dae- > mons). Please note the last 2 sentences. Added to this, I also checked source codes of pw(8). And, I found the same restriction there, too. Currently, I have nobody (uid = 65534) account as a default account on my box. It might be easy to guess that the maximum is greater than 65533. My question is why such a restricion still remains. koya To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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