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Re: How many accounts does Linux have?



On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 01:51:49PM +0900, ^°"c?Z"ü wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a problem that my Linux server has to manage about 10000 users.
> I was looking for information about maximum user for Linux,but I could't.
> Are there anyone who have experiment of managing huge accounts?
> 
> Katsumi.

linux at the moment can have a maximum of 65534 users and groups,
kernel 2.4 i think now uses 32bit uids instead of 16 bit and would
support many many more.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/


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