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# 8  
Old 04-09-2009
I think that note is precisely referring to the NFS specific accounts I already mentioned.

Otherwise, unless you use a really old (>13 years) Solaris release, there should be no problem using large UIDs.
# 9  
Old 04-09-2009
I remember having problems with group names that were too long causing the output of "ls -l" to have the owner and group names to crash into each other (no space in between), a UID with extra digits could cause problems when doing an "ls -ln" could suffer the same problem.
# 10  
Old 04-09-2009
Although useradd and groupadd complain about long names, neither them nor long ids seems to hurt ls with Solaris:
Code:
$ pfexec groupadd -g 2147483647 biggroupbiggroupbiggroupbiggroup
UX: groupadd: biggroupbiggroupbiggroupbiggroup name too long.
$ pfexec useradd -u 2147483647 -g biggroupbiggroupbiggroupbiggroup biguserbiguserbiguserbiguser
UX: useradd: biguserbiguserbiguserbiguser name too long.
UX: useradd: biggroupbiggroupbiggroupbiggroup name too long.
$ pfexec su biguserbiguserbiguserbiguser               
$ id
uid=2147483647(biguserbiguserbiguserbiguser) gid=2147483647(biggroupbiggroupbiggroupbiggroup)
$ cd /tmp
$ touch foo
$ ls -ln foo
-rw-r--r--   1 2147483647 2147483647       0 avr   9 22:22 foo
$ ls -l foo
-rw-r--r--   1 biguserbiguserbiguserbiguser biggroupbiggroupbiggroupbiggroup       0 avr   9 22:22 foo

# 11  
Old 04-10-2009
Interesting! I can't remember which version of Solaris I had the problem with, probably Solaris 2.6 (on Sparc of course)..
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