Re: SFTP - Max Users

2009-08-27 Thread Todd T. Fries
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" wrote: | | > G'day, | > I searched around but couldn't find a simple answer to this | > question. I want to host a sftp server and th

Re: SFTP - Max Users

2009-08-27 Thread Robert
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:43:34 -0400 Brynet wrote: > Robert wrote: > > 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. > > Hi, > > Thats wrong

Re: SFTP - Max Users

2009-08-27 Thread Brynet
Robert wrote: > 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. Hi, Thats wrong, uid_t and gid_t are 32-bit unsigned integers on at least i386. .

Re: SFTP - Max Users

2009-08-27 Thread Morris, Roy
excellent thanks. -Original Message- From: Robert [mailto:rob...@openbsd.pap.st] Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 2:53 PM To: Morris, Roy Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: SFTP - Max Users On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:23:18 -0400 "Morris, Roy" wrote: > G'day, > I searche

Re: SFTP - Max Users

2009-08-27 Thread Robert
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:23:18 -0400 "Morris, Roy" 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

SFTP - Max Users

2009-08-27 Thread Morris, Roy
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 o