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Re: Policy for 32-bit uids/gids?



David B Harris dijo [Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 04:23:03AM -0400]:
> I certainly agree with the general idea, as well as the specific
> proposal of allocating 2^16 UIDs for Samba's idmap usage.
> 
> That being said, will Sarge release with the minimum requisites for the
> 2^32 UIDs? If so, I'm happy. But somebody should ask the RM to be sure.
> Otherwise, I would think it'd have to wait until Sarge+1.
> 
> Specifically, quota stuff. Every tree but Marcello's has implemented 32
> bit quotas, as far as I know, but not his. So 32 bit quotas aren't
> "official" yet. Might need Xu to patch the default kernel images.

Not only that... Are 32-bit UIDs legal in *BSD or HURD? I don't think
Samba should be limited to Linux-only installs.

Greetings,

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