31/32 bit UIDs and GIDs

[Jeremy Allison]

Richard Sharpe wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have just discovered that Digital UNIX 4.0D has the capability of using
> 31/32-bit UIDs and GIDs.  This capability is switched off by default.
> 
> Other UNIXen may also have this capability.  I wonder which ones?
> 
> My main questions are:
> 
>   What impact does this have on Samba? UID_T on DU will be larger, so does
> this
>   impact anything?

Should work fine. The only problem might be mapping users
with a very high uid_t to an NT RID when using the domain
code.

Otherwise everything should just work fine - if it doesn't
it's a bug so report it.

Cheers,

	Jeremy.

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