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Date:      Fri, 15 Sep 1995 20:19:53 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        gcrutcher@datatrek.com (Gary Crutcher)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Max Users
Message-ID:  <199509151819.UAA21645@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <15091995071756790.II41@datatrek.com> from "Gary Crutcher" at Sep 15, 95 07:15:51 am

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As Gary Crutcher wrote:
> 
> Is there a practical limit to the numbers of user accounts I
> can have with FreeBSD?  I am setting a commercial Web site 
> and will eventually have a few hundred user accounts.

I think the guy with his 11000 entries in the password file had a
small problem in that each run of passwd(1) or chsh(1) did take some
amount of time. :)

But Guido van Roij came up with a proposal... not sure what's up
there.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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