Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 13:52:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Joe McGuckin <joe@monk.via.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Largest UID value ? Message-ID: <200108042052.f74KqHM82410@monk.via.net>
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What is the largest legitimate user id value? getpwent() returns a uid_t which is a 32 bit unsigned it. But, user 'nobody' (which historically had a user id of -1) has a user id of 65534. Will it break things if I start adding users with uid's greater than 65536 ? Thanks, Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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