[OpenAFS] Limits for user and group IDs in 1.4.12 and the future releases

[Jeffrey Altman]

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On 11/9/2010 4:24 AM, Assarsson, Emil wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> Are there any hard limits on the user and groups ID? The man page says =
nothing about it.
> My plan was to use winbinds SID-to-UID algorithm to create the ID and j=
ust negate them for groups. This will create high numbers like 2060593714=
=2E I have tried to create users and groups with these and it doesn't com=
plain. Will I bump into a road block with this setup?

The AFS ID space is a 32-bit integer with positive values being users
and negative values being groups.

Jeffrey Altman


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