if your running that many users i would like to see your machine =)
qmail is a good example of anthonies suggestion
It supports multiple users per unix user
i think its damn near unlimited.
If you ar running that many email addies, qmail wouldnt be a bad idea
anyway
Dean
Anthony Rumble wrote:
>
> On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > Is there a way to increase the maximum number of users from 16-bit to 32-bit
> > with the 2.2.5-15 kernel? I know the 2.4 kernel will implement this, but I
> > need it for the 2.2 kernel.
>
> You have more than 65k users??
>
> If it's because of "Email".. maby you need to look at doing your mail
> differently.. Instead of One "Unix" user per mailbox.. Maby you need to
> "virtualise" it somehow.. I believe there are pop servers out there that
> don't need a "unix" account to work..
>
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