practical limit on the number of UIDs

[Nadav Har'El]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011, Tzafrir Cohen wrote about "Re: practical limit on the number of UIDs":
> PAM and NSS are completely userspace (right?). Should the kernel even
> care about users that are not currently logged on?

The only place I could think of, where the kernel needs something like a list
of users, is the quota system (actually, I've even lost track whether this
is now done in the kernel, or in user space). I guess that nobody else can
think of any other places as well - since nobody mentioned any. So Muli,
you're good to go ;-)

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