In a stats colum in linux format this month, it said: 64,000 is the maximum number of users that could connect to a linux box before kernel version 2.4
With a 2.4 kernel, you can have 4.3bn connections. I'd image that the structures to handle this number of user ids must be implace otherwise this stat would be somewhat useless (if you believe stats anyway!) Matthew On Tue, 9 Jan 2001 12:39:34 GMT, Cliff Sarginson said: > Well the user id field in the password file is an unsigned int, > i.e. 32bits on a PC... > > So .. lots ! > > Course, it may be limited by other considerations..lol > > Cliff > > I think I remember reading somewhere that because users have 16bit uid's > > by default, the maximum is 64k or so (65,536). But you can have 32bit > > uid's if you're brave I also believe. > > > > Cheers, > > Corey J. Popelier > > http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas > > > > > > On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Sathish C wrote: > > > > > Hi All > > > > > > can anybody tell me tha maximum number of users that can be created on > > > debian linux if there i sany such limit. > > > Please don't say that as many users as in any other linux, because I > > > don't know how many can be users created on other variants of linux > > > also. > > > > > > Please tell me how I can find such details. I searched in the man pages( > > > useradd) but I could not. > > > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > > > > > Bye > > > Kilaru > > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- Using intelligent power: RISC OS, Be OS, Debian Linux Enjoying computing.
