From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 15 11:50:42 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id LAA29293 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 15 Sep 1995 11:50:42 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA29288 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 1995 11:50:39 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id UAA26616; Fri, 15 Sep 1995 20:50:35 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA26447; Fri, 15 Sep 1995 20:50:34 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id UAA21645; Fri, 15 Sep 1995 20:19:53 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199509151819.UAA21645@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Max Users To: gcrutcher@datatrek.com (Gary Crutcher) Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 20:19:53 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <15091995071756790.II41@datatrek.com> from "Gary Crutcher" at Sep 15, 95 07:15:51 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 580 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)