At 06:25 PM 1/12/00 Chris Adams wrote:
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.
You'll reach performance issues first <smile>. Jeff -- Jeff Lasman, nobaloney.net <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> <www.nobaloney.net>, <www.mailtraqna.com>, <www.email-lists.com>