Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 13:26:11 +0200 From: Francesco Casadei <fcasadei@inwind.it> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: BOOTSTASHA@aol.com Subject: Re: adding a user Message-ID: <20010910132611.A1509@goku.kasby> In-Reply-To: <20010910122659.B1247@goku.kasby>; from fcasadei@inwind.it on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 12:26:59PM %2B0200 References: <5b.1b6fe4cb.28cd68fb@aol.com> <20010910122659.B1247@goku.kasby>
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--BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 12:26:59PM +0200, Francesco Casadei wrote: > On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 08:53:15PM -0400, BOOTSTASHA@aol.com wrote: > > I am trying to add a user who has a UID of 38445 (given by my instructo= r).=20 > > The manual says that you can't have an ID over 32000. How can this be= =20 > > accomplished. > >=20 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > >=20 > > end of the original message >=20 > It works on FreeBSD 4.4RC: >=20 > # pw useradd user -u 38445 -g users > # pw usershow user > user:*:38445:1001::0:0:User &:/home/user:/bin/sh > # pw userdel user > # pw usershow user > pw: no such user `user' >=20 > From sys/types.h: >=20 > typedef __uint32_t u_int32_t; > ... > typedef u_int32_t uid_t; /* user id */ >=20 > From i386/include/ansi.h: >=20 > typedef unsigned int __uint32_t; >=20 > So seems that the uid can be a number in the range 0..4294967295 (i.e. > 2^32 - 1) for i386. >=20 > Actually this number is limited to 2147483647: >=20 > # pw useradd user -u 4294967295 -g users > pwd_mkdb: 2147483647 > recommended max uid value (65535) > # pw usershow user > user:*:2147483647:1001::0:0:User &:/home/user:/bin/sh >=20 > Francesco Casadei > --=20 > You can download my public key from http://digilander.iol.it/fcasadei/ > or retrieve it from a keyserver (pgpkeys.mit.edu, wwwkeys.pgp.net, ...) >=20 > Key fingerprint is: 1671 9A23 ACB4 520A E7EE 00B0 7EC3 375F 164E B17B >=20 > end of the original message And this is the reason of the soft limit of 65535 (from pwd_mkdb(8)): ENVIRONMENT If the PW_SCAN_BIG_IDS environment variable is set, pwd_mkdb will sup= =AD press the warning messages that are normally generated for large user = and group IDs. Such IDs can cause serious problems with software that mak= es assumptions about the values of IDs. --=20 You can download my public key from http://digilander.iol.it/fcasadei/ or retrieve it from a keyserver (pgpkeys.mit.edu, wwwkeys.pgp.net, ...) Key fingerprint is: 1671 9A23 ACB4 520A E7EE 00B0 7EC3 375F 164E B17B --BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7nKNSfsM3XxZOsXsRAihIAJ4x12oJZqG6voOfsC6IHyTsMCG6TwCdGMU5 IRsd7vuvx6KRut9to9X8SUo= =nQnu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BOKacYhQ+x31HxR3-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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