3 Sep
2015
3 Sep
'15
2:55 p.m.
On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 07:58:30AM -0400, mark wrote:
GIDs < 1000 have been std in all Unices for a long, long time. For an ordinary user, going above shouldn't be a problem. <chuckles> At work, a couple of years ago, we went to 7-digit user & gids.
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We have 8 and 9 digit UIDs now, however some software still chokes on such long UIDs.
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Jonathan Billings billings@negate.org