Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 14:42:35 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> Cc: Joao Carlos <jcarlos@bahianet.com.br>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 32000 users limit Message-ID: <199905202142.OAA28259@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 20 May 1999 15:02:29 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905201502140.29142-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net>
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>I believe the limit is due to using a 2 byte signed int > >On Thu, 20 May 1999, Joao Carlos wrote: > >> I've seen in some place that UIDs in FreeBSD had to be less than >> 32000. I'd like to know how i can increase this limit, since a provider here >> on my city has crashed its server because it has reached more than 32000 >> users. >> And... why this limit? uids in FreeBSD/i386 are 4 byte ints and at least that large on FreeBSD/Alpha. The only thing that comes to mind as a potential problem is NFS...I seem to recall that uids/gids in the v2 protocol are 16 bits, but I could be wrong about that. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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