Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 16:18:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Rashid Karimov <rashid@rk.ios.com> To: michael@memra.com (Michael Dillon) Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newbie isp question Message-ID: <199608202018.QAA13712@rk.ios.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960819191728.25233M-100000@sidhe.memra.com> from "Michael Dillon" at Aug 19, 96 07:22:55 pm
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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? On my 2.2-SNAP: typedef u_int32_t uid_t; /* ****/types.h */ It means you can have 4 G users > > 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. > If you use the Berekely db format to do this it mates nicely with sendmail > and you only need to modify a few services to work with it like POP, IMAP, > RADIUS and maybe httpd. You shouldn't modify anything in apps if you do it nicely. The only routine(s) which has to be changed is getpw* family from libc . All well behaved apps never crunch /etc/passwd themselves. Rashid
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