Date: 01 Apr 2000 13:29:02 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com> To: roberto@idirect.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USER LIMIT in freebsd Message-ID: <rd6vh21k74h.fsf@world.std.com> In-Reply-To: roberto@idirect.com's message of Fri, 31 Mar 2000 15:41:05 -0500 References: <594E6BF7D307D311B1F90080C8E25EA3C25E05@exchange.idirect.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
roberto@idirect.com writes: > I have a mail server running freebsd 3.2 I have com e into a snag. The > server does not seem to want to support more than 32000 users in fact if I > try to add more it croaks. Is this a kernel limit, adduser limit, pw_mkdb > limit ?? How can I increase and/or make this an almost impossible to reach > number? The actual limit is 2^32, or over 4 billion. However, for historical reasons, you get a warning from pwd_mkdb(8) when trying to use values over 2^15. Although FreeBSD itself can use 32-bit uids just fine, there may be some external programs that can't, and NFS version 2 is incapable of using uids larger than that number (it's built right into the protocol). If you're not using NFS, you should be just fine. Good luck. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?rd6vh21k74h.fsf>