Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!wang!news From: lws@capybara.comm.wang.com (Lyle Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: Single site-wide uid space Message-ID: Date: 6 Dec 90 01:48:52 GMT References: <151@sleepy.UUCP> Sender: news@wang.com Distribution: na Organization: Mail to News Gateway Lines: 17 anthis@sleepy.UUCP (mike anthis) writes: >In article , fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) writes: >> We sleazed out of this one. Everyone's UID here is a function of their >> telephone extension. For most people, it's just the last 4 digits of the >> extension, but there are also some tricks to make sure that there are no > sa's execution time increases linearly with the magnitude of > the largest positive user ID in /etc/passwd. >I am wondering how big the UID's have to get for this to become a problem? Well, in my case, the highest UID is 72721 (whoops, better fix that, should be 2721) but should be 8745. I've got a Sun, and don't notice any problems with sa. Lyle X72322 lws@capybara.comm.wang.com