RE: 64K User Barrier on Linux

Robert 'Shadow' Paj¹k (shadowkki.pl)
Thu, 25 Nov 1999 10:56:04 +0100

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> Greets All:
Hey!
>
> I was talking with a guy today who mentioned that their server would soon
> max out at 64K users.
My free server is running 190k of users :) rapidly growing...
Linux has litle uid counter that limits maximal number of useres to 64k...
You can change it - Alen wrote to me that it won't be done becouse it would
breake comatibility with programs...
> They said it was a Linux thing and were looking at
> other Unix clones.
It was cheaper and faster to change Linux or even easier to change FreeBSD
:)
According to our system - we run postfix on it and it works ok. It has nor
problems with big uids, and authentification with user database (like in
FreeBSD pwd.db)...

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