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Date:      Wed, 1 Sep 1999 15:42:04 +0930 (CST)
From:      Greg Lewis <glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        Evren Yurteen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: best way to maintain user accounts
Message-ID:  <199909010612.PAA26821@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <37CB8C3F.8D730D3D@ispro.net.tr> from Evren Yurteen at "Aug 31, 1999 10:03:11 am"

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> what if we are an big ISP and have 60thousand accounts and heading to
> 70thousand in next year or something? what happens when you pass 65534?
> I mean is not nobody account the last account you can have there?
> 
> Evren

Well, /usr/include/sys/types.h lists a uid_t as u_int32_t, which would
indicate that UIDs can go up to 4 billion, however the account adding
utilities like pw and adduser barf at a uid of anything more than
the maximum unsigned short (65535).  Maybe its that the uid range is
intended to be extended but all the functionality hasn't been fully
enabled?

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Greg Lewis 				glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au
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