Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Apr 1999 13:57:59 +1200 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: UID Question |
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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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