From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 20 18: 9:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from joshua.site-fx.net (ajhm54hby52pi.bc.hsia.telus.net [66.183.47.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C22E37B400 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 18:09:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from agent-orange.site-fx.net (gateway.site-fx.net [192.168.1.1]) by joshua.site-fx.net (8.12.1/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g1KLP2v6029808; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 13:25:02 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: 65000+ accounts From: "James A. Peltier" To: Nick Rogness Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.2 Date: 20 Feb 2002 13:25:11 -0800 Message-Id: <1014240311.2766.2.camel@agent-orange.site-fx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 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 LDAP On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 13:23, Nick Rogness wrote: > > 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? > > Has anybody reached this limit and converted to something else? I'd love > to hear about it. > > On the same lines, will username length be increased from 16 ? > > 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 -- -James Hardware, n.: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message