Sounds like a job better suited for a DB backed authentication system such as LDAP.
This is just off the top of my head, but for some reason I wouldn't want /etc/passwd and its relatives 1 million lines long. Like I said, no deep reasoning here, just intuition. On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Muli Ben-Yehuda <[email protected]>wrote: > Is it feasible to build a contemporary Linux system with around 1 > million distinct user UIDs? Anyone tried it? We can assume only a > relatively small subset of users will actually be logged in at once. > > Cheers, > Muli > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >
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