excellent thanks. -----Original Message----- From: Robert [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 2:53 PM To: Morris, Roy Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: SFTP - Max Users
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:23:18 -0400 "Morris, Roy" <[email protected]> wrote: > G'day, > I searched around but couldn't find a simple answer to this > question. I want to host a sftp server and there could be > thousands of accounts, although not all used at once. I was > wondering if there is a limit to the number of user accounts > I can create on a machine? I had originally thought of using > a database for authentication but I don't see an easy way of doing > that on OpenBSD. > > thanks > Roy Number of local user accounts is liminted by the available user id's. Since that's a 16 bit limit and if you stick to the 'from uid 1000 up' rule, that'd leave you with 64536 possible accounts. - Robert
