From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 27 08:35:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA09669 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 08:35:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from roskihs.roskildebc.dk (roskihs.roskildebc.dk [194.182.101.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA09664 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 08:35:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pc9 (leif.roskildebc.dk [194.182.101.9]) by roskihs.roskildebc.dk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA10798; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 17:36:18 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <3.0.1.16.19970827173227.370f33a8@roskihs.roskildebc.dk> X-Sender: leif@roskihs.roskildebc.dk X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (16) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 17:32:27 +0200 To: xp7@inetnow.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Leif Neland Subject: Re: How Many Users In-Reply-To: <34046BE8.52B3@inetnow.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id IAA09665 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 11.03 27-08-1997 -0700, Bill Harrison wrote: >Does anyone know the maxumum number of user accounts that can be >enterred into the passwd file. Could it handle up to 70,000 logon names >and passwords. > >There would never be more than 100 users logged on at a time. > I very much believe 65534 is the highest uid-number. You will also run into troubles with i-nodes for home-dirs and files. I donīt know a reasonable number for users, perhaps 5000 or so? One ISP uses adresses as xxx@post1.tele.dk, yyy@post4.tele.dk; I donīt know how many users they have. But it shouldnīt be a problem having an enormous alias-file on the main mailserver, so everybody has an email-adress as user@provider.dom, and the main server then knew on which server the user lived.