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Conference turris::digital_unix

Title:	DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:	Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:	SMURF::DENHAM

Created:	Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	10068
Total number of notes:	35879

8984.0. "Max logins on DEC UNIX 4.0B" by CHEFS::WILLS_A (Andrew Wills) Thu Feb 27 1997 09:31

    
    
    
    
    Hello,
        
              I have looked through the UNIX 4.0B release notes and NIS
    guide, and cannot find a figure for the maximum number of user-id/passwords
    that can be held in Digital UNIX. Could anyone who knows of a limit 
    please answer this note. I'm not after the number of logins allowed,
    but the size of the passwd or yppasswd file.
        
    Thanks in advance,
        
    Andrew

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8984.1 See note 8971 NETRIX::"[email protected]" Ann Majeske Thu Feb 27 1997 11:05 5

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8984.1	See note 8971	NETRIX::"[email protected]"	Ann Majeske	`Thu Feb 27 1997 11:05`	5
	I don't think that there is an explicit maximum number of entries in the /etc/passwd or yppasswd file below the maximum number of uids supported. But, based on note 8971, there does appear to be a practical limit because of problems with dbm not being able to handle large databases. [Posted by WWW Notes gateway]

I don't think that there is an explicit maximum number of entries in the
/etc/passwd or yppasswd file below the maximum number of uids supported.
But, based on note 8971, there does appear to be a practical limit because 
of problems with dbm not being able to handle large databases.
[Posted by WWW Notes gateway]