Not sure what unix you're running, over here, uid_t is 32bit. Penned by Robert on 20090827 20:52.31, we have: | On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:23:18 -0400 | "Morris, Roy" <rmor...@internetsecure.com> wrote: | | > G'day, | > I searched around but couldn't find a simple answer to this | > question. I want to host a sftp server and there could be | > thousands of accounts, although not all used at once. I was | > wondering if there is a limit to the number of user accounts | > I can create on a machine? I had originally thought of using | > a database for authentication but I don't see an easy way of doing | > that on OpenBSD. | > | > thanks | > Roy | | Number of local user accounts is liminted by the available user id's. | Since that's a 16 bit limit and if you stick to the 'from uid 1000 up' | rule, that'd leave you with 64536 possible accounts. | | - Robert
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