<div dir="ltr">Sounds like a job better suited for a DB backed authentication system such as LDAP.<div><br></div><div>This is just off the top of my head, but for some reason I wouldn't want /etc/passwd and its relatives 1 million lines long.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Like I said, no deep reasoning here, just intuition.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Muli Ben-Yehuda <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:muli@cs.technion.ac.il">muli@cs.technion.ac.il</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Is it feasible to build a contemporary Linux system with around 1<br>
million distinct user UIDs? Anyone tried it? We can assume only a<br>
relatively small subset of users will actually be logged in at once.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Muli<br>
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