Jack Holt wrote: > > At 04:43 PM 9/19/97 -0600, Chad D. Zimmerman wrote: > >On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > > > >> At least 30,000 accounts can be supported. I've never heard of anyone > >> actually having that many. > >> > >> Bruce > > > >Just to give an idea it is a little over that .. at last check the > >university systems here have over 80,000 users ... mainly a sun server > >managing all that though..
The suns are probably using NIS+ or some such and multiple networked machines. A whole 'nuther ball of wax entirely. With Debian, you could have ~65K users per machine and that's real logins, but then if you did, having logins on multiple machines would have to be factored in. The real answer to this question is "How many do you really need?" (Ithink NIS+ is available on Debian, isn't it? > > > >No wonders systems are down so much lately... > > > [sigs deleted] > > Well, Suns (under Solaris) support 32-bit uids, so the limit there could > be much higher. Bruce's answer seems to imply that Debian uses 16-bit > uids. Can someone tell me if that's true or not? Just curious. > > --Jack; > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- ----------------------------------------- Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] The IQ of the group is that of the member whose IQ is lowest divided by the number of members. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
