Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 23:12:11 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com> To: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newbie isp question Message-ID: <199608200612.XAA06278@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 19 Aug 96 19:22:55 -0700. <Pine.BSI.3.93.960819191728.25233M-100000@sidhe.memra.com>
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>On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Swee-Chuan Khoo wrote:
>> 1) can freebsd machine take more than 65000 user? the uid will
>> ran out, right?
>Yes. But if you are going to have that many users you should not be using
>the UNIX user database but should be building your own user database.
Hesiod and kerberos handle this Really Well.
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