>> upper limit of the size of the passwd or the number of possible users on
>> the linux box. Has anybody experience with that sort of constraints?
>
>the upper limit on the numbers of uid's you can have is 65536, because uid
>on linux is an unsigned short (0 to 2^16).
>
Does this limitation apply to NIS?
Isn't NIS the answer to this scaling?
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