Bug 11608 - High UID values cannot be set
Summary: High UID values cannot be set
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Status: CLOSED DEFERRED
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Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: passwd
Version: 6.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Cristian Gafton
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Reported: 2000-05-23 17:04 UTC by srinath
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-05-23 17:04:41 UTC
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Description srinath 2000-05-23 17:04:41 UTC 
If the UID is greater than 65536 the UID for this user defaults to a value
8402. Changing the login.defs file and re-creating the user has no effect.
Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-07-03 09:19:20 UTC 
This is a kernel limitation that will be fixed in the 2.4 series.
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