From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 31 14: 8: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84BC514D3E for ; Sat, 31 Jul 1999 14:07:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 11AgJQ-000HyC-00; Sat, 31 Jul 1999 23:05:00 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Adrian Filipi-Martin Cc: "Matthew D. Fuller" , Mike Smith , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No MAXUID ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 31 Jul 1999 13:39:16 -0400." Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 23:05:00 +0200 Message-ID: <69079.933455100@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 31 Jul 1999 13:39:16 -0400, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: > I'd be in favor of adding a /etc/pwd_mkdb.conf or some similar > file. Eeeuw! :-) I'm not in favour of this idea, but issuing a single warning for one or more UID's encountered isn't behaviour that would make retrofitting your idea impossible if you decided to do it later. While warnings and error messages should give me enough information to address a problem efficiently (something on the wishlist of any Wintendo administrator), once I know there is more than zero potentially problematic entries, I can used cat, awk and sh to find all the culprits if I want to. Ciao, Sheldon. PS: Those two paragraphs have nothing to do with each other, by the way. :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message