[28976] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: pop server in an ISP environment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg A. Woods)
Mon May 29 22:38:39 2000
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From: woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
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Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 22:36:19 -0400 (EDT)
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[ On Monday, May 29, 2000 at 19:32:08 (-0600), Rick Kelly wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: pop server in an ISP environment
>
> And meanwhile, SCO Open Desktop and SCO UNIX had a limit of 65k uids,
> as well as a mechanism that tried to keep sysadmins from reusing the
> uids of old users.
I know of a couple of sites still running various forms of SCO UNIX for
Internet servers, but I've *NEVER* heard of any real ISP running one! ;-)
> AIX 4.x ships with NIS that won't support a passwd file greater than
> 10k users.
Weird. AIX-3.x (and later the final releases of AIX-2.x) was the first
system I remember seeing that had the "nobody" UID/GID actually listed
as 4294967294 (-2).
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