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Re: how many account?



Jack Holt wrote:
> 
> At 04:43 PM 9/19/97 -0600, Chad D. Zimmerman wrote:
> >On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> >
> >> At least 30,000 accounts can be supported. I've never heard of anyone
> >> actually having that many.
> >>
> >>      Bruce
> >
> >Just to give an idea it is a little over that .. at last check the
> >university systems here have over 80,000 users ... mainly a sun server
> >managing all that though..

The suns are probably using NIS+ or some such and multiple networked
machines.
A whole 'nuther ball of wax entirely. With Debian, you could have ~65K
users
per machine and that's real logins, but then if you did, having logins
on 
multiple machines would have to be factored in.  The real answer to this 
question is "How many do you really need?"  (Ithink NIS+ is available on
Debian, isn't it?
> >
> >No wonders systems are down so much lately...
> >
> [sigs deleted]
> 
> Well, Suns (under Solaris) support 32-bit uids, so the limit there could
> be much higher.  Bruce's answer seems to imply that Debian uses 16-bit
> uids.  Can someone tell me if that's true or not?  Just curious.
> 
>         --Jack;
> 
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