Re: strawman proposal: homed directories for users

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On Tuesday 8 October 2024 17:07:53 BST Kilian Hanich via devel wrote:
> Am 08.10.24 um 17:32 schrieb Lennart Poettering:
> 
> > For example, I am fundamentally opposed to the model
> > these systems generally pursue of turning UID numbers into centrally,
> > organization-wide managed concepts.
> 
> Wait a second, some organization have more than 70k people (and in this
> day and age, they all require their own accounts) and UIDs are (on
> Linux) 16bit numbers (which means a max of 65536 possible values).
> 
> Does somebody know or have an idea of how they make that work?
> 
I worked at a place with more than 70k user accounts; we used 32 bit UIDs on 
Linux for this purpose.

Linux UIDs are 32 bit since 2.4 days, not 16 bit.

-- 
Simon Farnsworth


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