Re: 32 bits uids/gids?
from the secret journal of Mathieu Guillaume (mat@voxmobili.com):
>
> I'm looking to set up a system to manage a number of mail accounts, using
> quotas.
> So far, it looks like the way to go would be a recent kernel (32 bits
> uids) with the usual userland utilities, except it seems those aren't
> quite ready yet (I tried creating a user with uid/gid 100000, chown does
> accept that high a number and when I try to login I get an error on
> setgid).
> What's the status of Debian on this? (glibc2 and ext2fs seem to support
> this already).
>
you really don't want to do it this way. try ldap or an rdbms. anything but
flat files. or do you want to scan through 65,000 lines of text every time
some luser checks his mail?
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Jacob Kuntz
underworld.net/~jake
jpk@cape.com
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