docs/61625: Wrong maximal UID and GID in Handbook, section 8.2

Marian Cerny jojo at matfyz.cz
Tue Jan 20 13:10:17 UTC 2004


>Number:         61625
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Wrong maximal UID and GID in Handbook, section 8.2
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jan 20 05:10:12 PST 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Marian Cerny
>Release:        5.1R
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD mrokarik 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Thu Jun  5 02:55:42 GMT 2003     root at wv1u.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>Description:
In section 8.2 Introduction is written:
The UID is a number from 0 to 65536 used to ...
The GID is a number from 0 to 65536 used to ...

By adding a line to passwd (using vipw):
test::65536:65536::0:0:test:/:/sbin/nologin

I get this as a response:
pwd_mkdb: 65536 > recommended max uid value (65535)
pwd_mkdb: 65536 > recommended max gid value (65535)
>How-To-Repeat:
See section 8.2 Introduction of the Handbook.
>Fix:
Change 65536 to 65535.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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