Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 15:50:56 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Cc: james@expresslane.ca (James FitzGibbon) Subject: Re: UIDs greater than 65535 ? Message-ID: <199606151350.PAA03498@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960613120205.5404A-100000@expresslane.ca> from James FitzGibbon at "Jun 13, 96 12:08:05 pm"
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As James FitzGibbon wrote:
> But pw_scan.c uses this check routine :
>
> if (id > USHRT_MAX) {
> warnx("%s > max uid value (%d)", p, USHRT_MAX);
> return (0);
> }
>
> So that although a userid can have a 32-bit value, the password scanning
> routines won't allow anything higher than 16 bit.
>
> Is this just an oversight (i.e. can we just change the constant in
> pw_scan.c? ) or are there other reasons why the UIDs are limited to 16-bit
> ?
I think that's for hysterical raisons. Perhaps older (unsupported)
file systems like SYSVFS might break, as well as Yellow Plague.
--
cheers, J"org
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