These users will have the ability to store attachments, etc.. very similiar
to what Yahoo does. Without UID's, you get into file ownership problems,
etc...
I'd love to hear what other people have down to work around this situation.
Thanks,
Chuck
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremiah Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 5:22 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Supporting more than 65535 UID's under 6.2
Try virtual user accounts.. why does the user need a *real* login on the
system if all they are doing is receiving mail. there are many documents on
this.
-miah
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 05:18:34PM -0800, Chuck Carson wrote:
>
> Yea,
>
> We are a top level domain and our offering email addresses so the need for
> this many account is necessary. What other solutions do you know of?
>
> -Chuck
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Galpin [mailto:
> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 3:39 PM
> To: Red Hat Mailing List (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: Supporting more than 65535 UID's under 6.2
>
>
> Sorry Chuck, I don't have an answer for you. I am however fascinated when
> I hear requests like this. Would you mind sharing what kind of
> application requires this (I'm guessing a pop/imap server) and what kind
> of "iron" you use.
>
> btw, if it is for a pop/imap server, you can avoid creating accounts for
> every user with some servers/configurations that use a database instead.
>
> thanks
> charles
>
> On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Chuck Carson wrote:
>
> >
> > Is it possible under the 2.2.x kernels to support greater than 2^16
UID's?
> > If so, is it a patch or entirely new kernel we need to look at?
> >
> > Thanks greatly,
> > CC
> >
> >
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