RE: [cobalt-users] What is the max # of accounts per RAQ???

["Chris Adams" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 18:12:42 -0800, Jeff Lasman wrote:

>While there isn't a "real" limit, there's definitely a practical limit, 
>though I haven't reached it.
>
>Each email account is a user.  The more users there are, the longer the 
>"passwd" and "shadow" files that have to be checked at login.

There's a hard limit on current Linux systems - the UID is stored in a 16-bit
integer. You'll never get past 2^16 users until someone does a kernel patch.