-*- Fundamental -*- MIT Unix UID allocation. Unix UIDs are 'shorts' and should be positive. Thus, the maximum number should be 32767. 11000 - 11999 are doubly allocated because somebody screwed up. "Somebody?" Let's make it clear here - the "Somebody" were the AI people who thought they could give out LCS space. How can that be if the multiple allocation is done within LCS? First Last Group Contact 0 4999 reserved for compatibility jis 5000 9999 AI Lab glenn, dms, cjl 10000 10999 LCS - Theory of Computation ray 11000 14999 Rest of LCS shep, srz 11000 11999 X-Consortium rws 15000 16999 Math Department ray 17000 17999 Spoken Language Systems (zue) kmi@goldilocks, dcw@goldilocks