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Date:      Mon, 26 Aug 1996 11:49:56 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
To:        Karl Denninger <karl@Mcs.Net>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: UID < 65535?
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.92.960826114751.3433p-100000@zap.io.org>
In-Reply-To: <199608252344.SAA11342@Jupiter.mcs.net>

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On Sun, 25 Aug 1996, Karl Denninger wrote:
>
> So why is this being blocked?

    Interoperability with NIS and NFS (all the more reason to hate
them).  I took out the little warning on our systems here, since we
are assigning blocks of userid's in the 500000+ range for some of our
customers.  We don't use NIS here, but NFS is another story... :-/
--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org, taob@ican.net)
Senior Systems and Network Administrator, Internet Canada Corp.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"




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