Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 22:04:14 -0400 From: "Richard Secor" <rsecor@seqlogic.com> To: "Geoffrey Robinson" <geoffr@globalserve.net>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Max Number of Records in Password File Message-ID: <003801bdfc97$1aec58c0$0300000a@spaceball1.seqlogic.com>
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as far as i know it only goes to 65535..... - the defaults that you need to have ...... i have done some dup uids in pw files but the file/dir always comes up as owned by the first username it finds in the pw file that goes with the number. (this is the same with the group) (tried this on AIX, HP/UX, and FreeBSD) i would say that you cant do it without major security risks and major possible system problems in the future...... I have to ask because you said something...... Why do you need to know this? -=Richard Secor Sequential Logic=- -----Original Message----- From: Geoffrey Robinson <geoffr@globalserve.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Tuesday, October 20, 1998 21:52 Subject: Max Number of Records in Password File >Is there a maximum on the number of records that can be in the password >file? By records I don't mean the highest UID possible because I'm setting >up a system that will have maybe as many as a million (or possibly more) >unique user names, passwords and home directories but with the same UID. >Please don't ask me why I need to know this :). > >Thanks > > >-- >Geoffrey Robinson >geoffr@globalserve.net >Oakville, Ontario, Canada. > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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