Thanks for the reply, I see what you mean in saying that it might have been like that. Which is what prompted my question because I wasn't sure if it had changed now. Anyone else have any input? Vince > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wayne Pinette > Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 2:23 PM > To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx; Esquivel, Vicente > Subject: RE: Max UID's on RHEL 3 > > The following is nothing more than a guess and speculation : > > <speculation type="mine"> > > It may be a throw back to the days when an int was 16 bit and > userid's were an unsigned int in the kernel (65535 being your > largest uid). I seem to recall an annoyance/bug in the NeXT > OS in which the userid was defined as a signed int so the max > uid was 32767, and nfs'ing between NeXT and Sun could be > problematic if you had a userid of 44569, but I digress. > > If this is in fact nothing more than a throw back, and uid in > the linux kernel is now a long or unsigned long, then you > will be able to have userid's up to 2^31 -1 or 2^32 -1. Im > too lazy to look, maybe someone else knows. > > </speculation> > > Other than that, I have no idea :-). > > Wayner > > > >>> Esquivelv@xxxxxxx 07/04/06 12:13 pm >>> > I think I might have found the answer on my own, I tested my > RHEL 3 server and I was able to increase the UID_MAX to > almost any number I wanted and I was able to create accounts. > The server kept on automatically assigning UID's to the > accounts and I was able to login with the accounts just fine. > I got all the way up to like 12345678901 as a uid and it > allowed me to assign it. > > Anyone have any input on this at all good or bad about huge > amounts of accounts on a server? > > Thanks all > > Vince > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Esquivel, > Vicente > > Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 10:57 PM > > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > > Subject: Max UID's on RHEL 3 > > > > Hello all, > > > > Is it possible to have more then 60,000 UID's(user > accounts) assigned > > on a RHEL ES 3.0 system? The systems by default has a UID_MAX of > > 60,000 in the login.defs file. Is it possible to have > more, if so how > > many is the true max? What changes would I have to make to > the system > > to accept more? I hope someone can help as this is > something we have > > run into and need to try to fix promptly. Any advice on > this would be > > greatly appreciated. > > > > Thanks all in advance > > > > Vince > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
