From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 20 14: 1:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C92B737B405 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 14:01:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1KM1QO08584; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:01:26 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:01:26 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Nick Rogness Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 65000+ accounts Message-ID: <20020220220125.GA4102@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Feb 20), Nick Rogness said: > Will the ~65000 account maximum in the password file be increased for > 5.0 when it comes out? If so, is it already in -CURRENT? If not, > what are my other alternatives to using a standard password style > file/db to break through this barrier...NIS maybe? Where are you seeing this limit? 4.* has a max uid/gid limit of 4294967295. It will warn you about uids greater than 65536, but you can suppress it according to the manpage: ENVIRONMENT If the PW_SCAN_BIG_IDS environment variable is set, pwd_mkdb will suppress the warning messages that are normally generated for large user and group IDs. Such IDs can cause serious problems with software that makes assumptions about the values of IDs. > On the same lines, will username length be increased from 16 ? I'm not sure there's a pressing need to make it any longer than that. Raising it makes the wtmp and accounting log files grow much faster, and I would guess most systems don't have very many usernames over 8 chars, let alone nearing 16. You can always adjust it yourself by editing /usr/include/utmp.h and raising UT_NAMESIZE, then rebuilding world. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message