From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 26 8: 6:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mgate07.so-net.ne.jp (mgate07.so-net.ne.jp [210.139.254.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43B4E37B422 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 08:06:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ipfw@ya3.so-net.ne.jp) Received: from mail.ya3.so-net.ne.jp (mspool11.so-net.ne.jp [210.139.248.11]) by mgate07.so-net.ne.jp (8.8.8+3.0Wbeta9/3.6W01041612) with ESMTP id AAA06504 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 00:06:39 +0900 (JST) Received: from localhost (p78a1ca.kngwnt01.ap.so-net.ne.jp [61.120.161.202]) by mail.ya3.so-net.ne.jp (8.9.3/3.7W01022316) with ESMTP id AAA01655 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 00:06:38 +0900 (JST) Subject: A question about max_uid From: Yoshihiro Koya To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.1 on Emacs 19.34 / Mule 2.3 (SUETSUMUHANA) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010427001555G.koya@pluto.math.yokohama-cu.ac.jp> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 00:15:55 +0900 X-Dispatcher: imput version 990905(IM130) Lines: 25 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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