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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: NFS and many thousands of user-id's
Message-ID: <2997@phri.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Nov-87 11:26:36 EST
Article-I.D.: phri.2997
Posted: Tue Nov  3 11:26:36 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Nov-87 08:37:09 EST
References: <7605@g.ms.uky.edu> <7623@e.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY)
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In article <7623@e.ms.uky.edu> david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron) talks about
the problems of running out of user id's on very large (campus-wide, or
even bigger) inter-NFS-ified machines.

	Seems to me heirarchial domains work for everything else; why not
for user id's?  Why do we need a numeric user id at all; how terrible would
it be if your id (as stored in the file system) is simply your domain
qualified user name, "david.ms.uky.edu".  What's 16 bytes in the inode, or
even 64, matter?
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016