Long machine names...

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Fri, 22 May 1998, Gerald Carter wrote:

> Tim Winders wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 21 May 1998, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Are there any restrictions on rid numbers?  A typical unix system 
> > cannot have a uid larger than 65534 (or something like that).  If the 
> 
> Solaris 2.6 has 32-bit uids.  Just fyi

cool!
 
> 
> Each part of the SID if a 16-bit number, correct?

32 bit.
 
> 	S-1-21-XXXXXX-XXXXXXX-XXXXXXX-YYYYYYY
> 
> where YYYYYYY ( the RID ) is a 16-bit number.

32 bit.

> 
> 
> 
> 
> j-
> ________________________________________________________________________
>                             Gerald ( Jerry ) Carter	
> Engineering Network Services                           Auburn University 
> jerry at eng.auburn.edu             http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/cartegw
> 
>        "...a hundred billion castaways looking for a home."
>                                   - Sting "Message in a Bottle" ( 1979 )
>