----- Original Message ----- | > > That assumes the highest UID number has a login shell... | | > which is generally the case... | > | > | Exactly, without excluding those who have a shell of nologin the last | uid on my machine is nfsnobody(65534), I don't believe that a UID can | be | greater than that. | | _______________________________________________ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS at centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Only if authenticating against /etc/passwd. If authenticating against Kerberos, LDAP, or some other method this is not the case. -- James A. Peltier Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIUM Technical Director Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpeltier at sfu.ca Website : http://www.fas.sfu.ca | http://vivarium.cs.sfu.ca MSN : subatomic_spam at hotmail.com Does your OS has a man 8 lart? http://www.xinu.nl/unix/humour/asr-manpages/lart.html