Re: [ILUG] patch for more users than 65535

From: Rick Moen (rick at domain linuxmafia.com)
Date: Wed 05 Sep 2001 - 01:22:17 IST


begin Deim Agoston quotation:

> Once I've read a thread about linux's user limit. It's been said
> that linux has the limit of 65535 users but there is a patch
> which makes available to register nearly hundred millions of
> users. Would somebody tell me where is it?

The kernel went to 32-bit UIDs in the middle of the 2.3.x kernel
series. But you'll also need a glibc patch. See:
http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/35/1999/11/0/2933406/

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Cheers,
Rick Moen                                          ROMANI, ITE DOMVM!
rick at domain linuxmafia.com


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