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Date:      30 Jul 1999 16:09:25 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: No MAXUID ?
Message-ID:  <xzpr9lq1b6y.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Sheldon Hearn's message of "Fri, 30 Jul 1999 15:48:19 %2B0200"
References:  <57250.933342499@axl.noc.iafrica.com>

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Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> writes:
> Would you be happy with changing things so that only one warning is
> generated? Something like "99999 > max_uid 65535: others may exist"? The
> current behaviour is quite annoying with large passwd files. :-)

Sure, and maybe modify the warning to say something like "legacy
software may not support UIDs larger than 65535"

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no


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