From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 11 9:52:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from raiden.jasnetworks.net (raiden.jasnetworks.net [65.194.248.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C263637B409 for ; Sat, 11 May 2002 09:52:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from works (works.jasnetworks.net [192.168.0.2]) by raiden.jasnetworks.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4BGwKK31848; Sat, 11 May 2002 12:58:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from raiden23@netzero.net) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20020511125516.00a28770@pop.netzero.net> X-Sender: raiden23@pop.netzero.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 12:58:14 -0400 To: Andrew , malan From: Lord Raiden Subject: Re: how master.passwd encrypts passwords Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020510123008.C92610-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au> References: <1020945314.3cda63a2185a9@datacore.za.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 > > What is the user limit in freebsd? > >Just over 65K. This is actually a good thing. Because you have to consider this. Imagine having a network where you had 1 million users allowed onto one box. Nobody would get access to the box because it would be getting hammered by login and other requests. 65k is just perfect. Although on clustered mail systems this might not work, but it prevents a given server from being overloaded by too many users. Windows 2000 may claim to be able to support over 1 million users, items, and objects, but I definitely wouldn't want to have to login or gain resources from that server. You'd never get anything done. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message