Re: 500.000+ users mailserver

[Russ Allbery]

Peter van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> What I meant to say was: NIS has the same limitations as your OS. If
> your OS limits uids at 64K, NIS won't limit you any further, neither
> will it help you break that barrier.

Right.  If you're running SunOS, you do have to worry about >32K UIDs.
And you still have to worry about >64K UIDs in most operating systems;
support for larger things is pretty spotty.

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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])         <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>