Re: hi all

[Corey Popelier <pancreas@dingoblue.net.au>]

I think I remember reading somewhere that because users have 16bit uid's
by default, the maximum is 64k or so (65,536). But you can have 32bit
uid's if you're brave I also believe.

Cheers,
 Corey J. Popelier
 http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas


On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Sathish C wrote:

> Hi All
>
> can anybody tell me tha maximum number of users that can be created on
> debian linux if there i sany such limit.
> Please don't say that as many users as in any other linux, because I
> don't know how many can be users created on other variants of linux
> also.
>
> Please tell me how I can find such details. I searched in the man pages(
> useradd)  but I could not.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Bye
> Kilaru
>