On Mon, 8 May 2000, Albert C. Uy wrote:
..
> Greetings!
>
> Any idea on what(else) would happen if a linux box hits 16k
> users?
>
> So far all i've noticed is that password changes take a while lot
> longer. With regards to login/telnet, everything seems fine.
if you want a system that can scale to many, many users, use FreeBSD. on
that system, the /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd can be Berkeley DBM
hashes.
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