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Re: how many account?



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..
>
>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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