<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I admin quite a large mail server that is currently running
> sendmail/qpopper, it has about 60000 accounts on it currently. I know
> that UNIX has a limit on the UID's of 65534, any file that has a UID
> higher than that number defaults back to UID0..
That has been the case in the past, but a reasonably recent Solaris
(say after 2.6, I think, and I can't answer for HPUX or AIX or any of
the free version) has a very much higher limit:
gruk:/home/jch>grep MAXUID /usr/include/sys/param.h
#define MAXUID 2147483647 /* max user id */
If you have the chance to upgrade to an OS that supports more UIDS, I
would definitely suggest that.
That said, you'll still run into problems if your /etc/passwd grows
very big - but in our case, we were quite OK until it approached a
million entries, after which the qmail servers started getting
horrendous loads every time we updated passwd.
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