> I'm trying to create more than 64K user accounts on a Linux Intel box, but i
> already know that it can't be done, so my only hope right now is that Alpha
> or Sparc Linux does support more than 64K users... is that true?
That would have been easy to find out - you've got the source ..
% find ./ -name '*.h'|xargs grep kernel_uid_t
./include/linux/types.h:typedef __kernel_uid_t uid_t;
./include/asm-i386/posix_types.h:typedef unsigned short __kernel_uid_t;
./include/asm-mips/posix_types.h:typedef long __kernel_uid_t;
./include/asm-alpha/posix_types.h:typedef unsigned int __kernel_uid_t;
./include/asm-m68k/posix_types.h:typedef unsigned short __kernel_uid_t;
./include/asm-sparc/posix_types.h:typedef unsigned short __kernel_uid_t;
./include/asm-ppc/posix_types.h:typedef unsigned int __kernel_uid_t;
./include/asm-sparc64/posix_types.h:typedef unsigned int __kernel_uid_t;
./include/asm-sparc64/posix_types.h:typedef unsigned short __kernel_uid_t32;
./include/asm-arm/posix_types.h:typedef unsigned short __kernel_uid_t;
>From my understanding, mips, alpha, ppc and sparc64 should have UIDs > 2^16
-- mne
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