From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Aug 19 23:12:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA26412 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 19 Aug 1996 23:12:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MindBender.HeadCandy.com (root@mindbender.headcandy.com [199.238.225.168]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA26406 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 1996 23:12:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.HeadCandy.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA06278; Mon, 19 Aug 1996 23:12:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199608200612.XAA06278@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.HeadCandy.com: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Michael Dillon cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newbie isp question In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 19 Aug 96 19:22:55 -0700. Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 23:12:11 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... Roll your own Internet access -- Seattle People's Internet cooperative. If you're in the Seattle area, ask me how. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------