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SubjectRe: UID Question
On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 01:57:45PM -0600, Brian Haymore wrote:

> I have been looking into the current situation for UID limits on
> Linux. The whole reason this comes up is due to the fact that the
> master NIS server is serving out UIDs over 3000000 and linux seems
> to top out at 65535, which I assume boils down to either an
> unsigned int verses a signed int or something to that effect. Has
> any thought been given about changing this to make Linux more
> easily integrade with other unix system? Thanks.

Several people have patches to do this -- its on the 2.3.x list. It
requirss some non-trivial changes in places and will in many cases
break libc5 applicaitons...



-cw

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