Raising the limit of uid (to be > 64k)

Raising the limit of uid (to be > 64k)

Post by Jonathan Bruc » Fri, 29 Sep 2000 04:00:00



Hi -

Is there any way of raising the ceiling on userID's on RedHat 6.2 ? I'm
hitting a limit of 64k and I need to raise it to at least 128k.

For example, if I add an two entries into /etc/passwd

test1::65535:10::/:/bin/bash
test2::65536:10::/:/bin/bash

I can login with user 'test1', but not with user 'test1'. Any ideas on
how I can raise the barrier much appreciated. A possible fix will allow
all authentications on this box to use NIS maps that are well
established and are working fine for all Solaris boxes.

-Jonathan

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1. nlink_t really allow >>>64k physical links??


UFS?  Let's see:

        tooting$ uname -sr
        SunOS 5.5.1
        tooting$ egrep nlink /usr/include/sys/fs/ufs_inode.h
                short   ic_nlink;       /*  2: number of links to file */
        #define i_nlink         i_ic.ic_nlink
        #define di_nlink        di_ic.ic_nlink

Doesn't look that way.  In fact, that suggests that it won't even
support 64K hard links, just 32K ("short", not "u_short")....
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