Single site-wide uid space

[Lyle Seaman]

anthis at sleepy.UUCP (mike anthis) writes:

>In article <avo7w9.8yc at wang.com>, fitz at 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 at capybara.comm.wang.com