practical limit on the number of UIDs

[Muli Ben-Yehuda]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:43:00AM +0300, Tom Goren wrote:

> Sounds like a job better suited for a DB backed authentication
> system such as LDAP.
> 
> 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.

I shared the same instinctive response and am now trying to find hard
data (ok, anecdotal data) to support it.

Cheers,
Muli