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
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