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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

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