Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 08:52:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Ayan George <ayan@kiwi.datasys.net> To: Steve Ames <steve@cioe.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UID Limits Message-ID: <199905261252.IAA10076@kiwi.datasys.net>
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Yes, pwd_mkdb compares the UID with USHRT_MAX. I wonder if there is a macro that defines the maximum GID and UID like: #define UID_MAX UINT_MAX; #define GID_MAX UINT_MAX; I couldn't find it anywhere in the source but if there is one out there, I imagine pwd_mkdb should use it. [ Quoted message from Steve Ames, recieved May 26, 5:56am.] > > Yeah, I just didn't know. I fired up 'vipw' and just changed a UID > to an arbitraily large number and vipw returned thustly: > > vipw: rebuilding the database... > pwd_mkdb: 1011045 > max uid value (65535) > > However it took it. I can chown a file over and it appears to work > correclty. I can then remove the user from the password database > and look at the file on the system with 'ls': > > -rw-r--r-- 1 1011045 wheel 0 May 26 05:52 i > > So the filesystem is ok with it... so other than one warning > message in 'pwd_mkdb' it seems to be that you can have more than > 65535... > > Am I missing something dangerous here? > > -Steve > [ End message from Steve Ames. ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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