On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:20:00AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Matthew Vernon <matthew@debian.org> writes: > > > Here's a patch to document the 32-bit nature of UIDs, in line with Ben's > > suggestion (which seems sound to me). I've added a note to the effect > > that useradd won't use the higher-numbered UIDs, which seems sensible as > > a) that requires no changes to useradd b) there are some systems you > > might want to NIS with which still have 16 bits only. > > Looks good to me. Thank you! Seconded. Seconded too. I have created a git branch bug765499-bill with this patch. Let's start a one week discussion period. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballombe@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
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