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Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 11:56:20 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: id / mkpasswd [2]
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On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 11:09:57AM +0100, david DOT sannier AT netcourrier DOT com wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>> Nope.  The datatype uid_t is equivalent to unsigned short (16bit).
>> The mkpasswd tool doesn't take that into account when generating
>> the uids, unfortunately.
>>
>> Corinna
>
>So, it's just a storage problem of the uid...
>In my memory, the unix datatype uid_t is a long ? no ?
>In the case I've mentioned yesterday, if an other user 
>already has the id 43833 (which is probably the case),
>Is there a way to log, in the same time, him on his
>own account and me on mine ?
>
>I've seen that mkpasswod works with int, the
>value returns by NetUserGetInfo is a DWORD -> ok
>(-long would be better (platform-independent), but...-)
>
>mkpasswd use the entire information NT returns so :
>
>Why 32 bits have not been chosen for uid_t too ?

Because we're mean.

cgf

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