[PLUG] unsigned short UIDs?

[Brian Gannon]

ISP's need more than 64k users.... NetNITCO (where I worked) had over
30,000 users on a dual digital alpha 533.... (radius server)....
and NetNITCO is still growing.. 
So there has to be a varient or kernel patch out there that uses over
64k..
Does digital unix support over 64k?

Brian

> This is done in the kernel and shouldnt depend on a certain Linux
> distribution.  Plus, I doubt there will be much of a need to support
> more than 64,000 users on one machine any time soon, which is the
> number of UIDs an unsigned short can represent, assuming it is 16 bits.
> So am I on crack, or are there operating systems out there that support
> more than 64k users?
> 
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