On 30 Jul 1999 15:38:30 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> How many times do I have to go through this?
Until I stuff a comment in the source that explains this. :-)
> There is no "artificial limitation in pwd_mkdb". pwd_mkdb warns
> against UIDs larger than 65535 because legacy software that uses
> unsigned short instead of uid_t will break with large UIDs.
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. :-)
Ciao,
Sheldon.
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