Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 09:37:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: casola@coopgbourg.com.ar, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Max UID too low Message-ID: <199810081337.JAA17052@lakes.dignus.com> In-Reply-To: <361CB320.C66C0195@coopgbourg.com.ar>
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> > I need to recompile kernel (i think) to get Max UID over 65535, because > with adduser/chpass/pwd_mkdb etc i have the following error (example): > > pwd_mkdb: 80712 > max uid value (65535) > pwd_mkdb: 80713 > max uid value (65535) > pwd_mkdb: 80714 > max uid value (65535) > pwd_mkdb: 80715 > max uid value (65535) > > which values or variables i need to touch/modify in kernel or in any > other way to get MAX UID over 65535???? > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > You have greater than 80 thousand users on your system? If not, I'd try picking a smaller number. If you didn't choose the number; then whatever did has problems... I believe a UID larger than an (unsigned) 16 bits will break some NFS implementations. - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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