Quoting Jukka Marin,

> How well do the passwd routines survive a load like this?  What is
> the maximum UID - is it 32767 or 65535?  If 32767, it's probably too
> low.. :-I

uid_t is 32 bits these days, so that shouldn't be a problem. Unless there's
some old leftover of the 16 bit uid days that noone noticed before, of course.

- Frank