From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 1 10:29:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from europe.std.com (europe.std.com [199.172.62.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B16D37B9FD for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2000 10:29:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lowell@world.std.com) Received: from world.std.com (lowell@world-f.std.com [199.172.62.5]) by europe.std.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA25431; Sat, 1 Apr 2000 13:29:03 -0500 (EST) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by world.std.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA15517; Sat, 1 Apr 2000 13:29:03 -0500 (EST) To: roberto@idirect.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USER LIMIT in freebsd References: <594E6BF7D307D311B1F90080C8E25EA3C25E05@exchange.idirect.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 01 Apr 2000 13:29:02 -0500 In-Reply-To: roberto@idirect.com's message of Fri, 31 Mar 2000 15:41:05 -0500 Message-ID: Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG roberto@idirect.com writes: > I have a mail server running freebsd 3.2 I have com e into a snag. The > server does not seem to want to support more than 32000 users in fact if I > try to add more it croaks. Is this a kernel limit, adduser limit, pw_mkdb > limit ?? How can I increase and/or make this an almost impossible to reach > number? The actual limit is 2^32, or over 4 billion. However, for historical reasons, you get a warning from pwd_mkdb(8) when trying to use values over 2^15. Although FreeBSD itself can use 32-bit uids just fine, there may be some external programs that can't, and NFS version 2 is incapable of using uids larger than that number (it's built right into the protocol). If you're not using NFS, you should be just fine. Good luck. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message