I would like to create a uid number greater the 100,000.. The reason? to make the unix uid the same as a preexisting AFS uid. what is the largest uid that can be created on suse 9.3? anyone know of any downside to a uid that big? -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax: 480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect of trespassing"
David Bear wrote:
I would like to create a uid number greater the 100,000.. The reason? to make the unix uid the same as a preexisting AFS uid.
what is the largest uid that can be created on suse 9.3?
anyone know of any downside to a uid that big?
SuSE 9.3 supports up to 4 billion users!
On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 21:49 -0400, James Knott wrote:
David Bear wrote:
I would like to create a uid number greater the 100,000.. The reason? to make the unix uid the same as a preexisting AFS uid.
what is the largest uid that can be created on suse 9.3?
anyone know of any downside to a uid that big?
SuSE 9.3 supports up to 4 billion users!
Go to YaST->Security and Users->Security settings and on the 5th page you can set the upper limit. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
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