[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I beleive that i read somewhere that you do not have to use
>the /etc/passwd files for users that you can use a user database
>..in fact there was something abotu that at slashdot.org a while
>ago.. where someone had a system that they were going to
>potentially have 1000 users or something like that and it was
>suggested that they use a user database.. I do not remeber all
>the details.. however this Linux ~= UNIX and I do believe that a
>user database is do able in any UNIX. There should be lots of
>documentation on how to implement a system like that....
Yes. The major limit (until PAM becomes fully supported) is the applications
that continue to depend on password files (NIS/NFS, ps, ls, id, login,
xdm, telnetd,....). There is also a need to be able to enforce some
resource limits. Currently this is not (yet) supported in the kernel, other
than disk quotas.
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