http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_80_6231.shtm I think Solaris also supports 32-bit uids, not sure about other OSes. mj at sci.fi wrote: >> I was wondering if there is an upper limit on the uid or the >> gidNumber in >> fds. >> Or is there a limit on OS level? Does anyone know what it is? Is this >> different between the RedHat releases? >> Is it different from other Unixes? > > I have personally loaded 10 million user accounts into FDS as a > performance test (on a measly 2.4Ghz P4 machine with 512MB of RAM), > and it worked just fine; not sure how many it could theoretically hold. > > The linux kernel has officially had support for 32-bit uidnumbers > since kernel v2.4, so the maximum user id number is 4294967295, or > approximately 4.3 billion. This is the same on any distribution using > kernel 2.4 or newer. I am not sure about UNIX... > > -- > mike > > -- > Fedora-directory-users mailing list > Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users >
