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



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

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