From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 20 14:27: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cody.jharris.com (cody.jharris.com [205.238.128.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C6E837B402 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 14:26:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (nick@localhost) by cody.jharris.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g1KMQRA13144; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:26:27 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nick@rogness.net) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:26:26 -0600 (CST) From: Nick Rogness X-Sender: nick@cody.jharris.com To: Dan Nelson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 65000+ accounts In-Reply-To: <20020220220125.GA4102@dan.emsphone.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Dan Nelson wrote: > 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. Thank You. > > > 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. No I guess they don't. I do have a need for them but that is irrelevent. Disk is cheap, who cares if wtmp grows faster :) > > You can always adjust it yourself by editing /usr/include/utmp.h and > raising UT_NAMESIZE, then rebuilding world. Thank you. I believed it was defined elsewhere also...thanks for the clarification. Nick Rogness - Don't mind me...I'm just sniffing your packets To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message