I think I remember reading somewhere that because users have 16bit uid's by default, the maximum is 64k or so (65,536). But you can have 32bit uid's if you're brave I also believe.
Cheers, Corey J. Popelier http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Sathish C wrote: > Hi All > > can anybody tell me tha maximum number of users that can be created on > debian linux if there i sany such limit. > Please don't say that as many users as in any other linux, because I > don't know how many can be users created on other variants of linux > also. > > Please tell me how I can find such details. I searched in the man pages( > useradd) but I could not. > > Thanks in advance. > > > Bye > Kilaru >
