Am Donnerstag, den 01.09.2005, 15:40 +1000 schrieb Nick Bryant:
If I just change that file will I need to restart anything? Sorry for the noob question but I'm a +60K user virgin. (The sub-dir 32K limit for home dirs was equally as big a learning curve ;o)
Hello Brian,
are you sure you want to go with /etc/passwd? You're talking about >60k users. Maybe you should look at LDAP or an equivalent solution. Especially if you are going to set up other machines with large user-bases it will simplify management a lot. With LDAP you can manage users, groups, group-membership and the like in a central directory. You can even configure sendmail, autofs and other services to lookup data in the directory (which makes the whole thing - at least imho - much easier and straightforward to manage).
Regards, Andreas