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Subject: | Re: uid > 64k |
Date: | Thu, 6 Mar 2003 17:14:48 -0000 |
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>> Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >>> there was again a report of uid > 64k. >>> >>> Why don't we patch mkpasswd to keep uids below 64k until Cygwin >>> switches to uid32 ? > Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> How do you fold the ids into 64K? You never know if you're already >> overwriting another id. Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > Agreed. However most passwd files have a lot fewer entries than 64k. > Thus I was thinking that randomizing the entries above 64k into the > range 10000->64k (to avoid local and special users) should succeed > with high probability. It might not be a good idea for mkpasswd to change the uids of these users on every run. Perhaps you could use a hash function on the SID, rather than a random function? Max.
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