Greetings!
Thanks for the info...i finally have an excuse to learn LDAP B).
Do they plan to resolve this on the 2.4 kernels?
On 8 May 00, at 20:02, eric pareja wrote:
> On Mon, 8 May 2000, Albert C. Uy wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> nothing as far as limits are concerned. your upper limit for number of
> users with x86 linux is 64K. if you have a user with uid 65536, he
> effectively has uid 0. so be careful when you hit that limit.
>
> of course, your /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files will be hefty, so it'll
> take a performance hit when updating either using chfn, chsh, passwd et
> cie. writing a file still takes longer than reading it. :)
>
> eric
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