Raising the uid and gid limits?

Posted by jeanrob98 on Wed 16 Sep 2009 at 19:08

According to Debian policy, limits for both UID and GID numbers (User IDs and Group IDs) are a maximum of 65535. Is there a way of increasing this limit?

I presume that this would break policy, but I am curious as to how this is assigned, where it can be changed.

I'd also be interested to know what software would break?

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• http://www.debian-administration.org/article/Raising_the_uid_and_gid_limits

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