Hello. I was just trying to do some research on the possibility of assigning
large UIDs. When I tried adduser, it complained that the UID was
> 60000. When I tried adding a user by hand, it didn't recognize the
user (I tried 200000). The type for uid_t is a 4 byte unsigned int,
which should handle the size UID I want to use (under 150000, but some
over 60000).
Anyone have any ideas? Is the 60000 limit artificially imposed to
maintain compatability with other systems, or is there a real reason
to limit UIDs to 60000?
TIA.
Chris
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Received on Mon Aug 21 1995 - 16:41:32 NZST