[SunHELP] Maximum users on a Solaris 2.6 server

[Will Mc Donald]

Strange. Your "set maxusers =40" in /etc/system is commented out so that's
not the problem. And Nicholas has pointed out the MAXUID isn't the problem
either.

When you say the new users aren't added do you mean there are no home areas
for them in /export/home or are they just not appearing at all in
/etc/passwd ? Is there anything in /var/adm/messages or the syslog ?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nicholas Dronen" <ndronen at frii.com>
To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 5:15 AM
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Maximum users on a Solaris 2.6 server


> You're guessing incorrectly.  That value is used by programs
> like useradd (not to mention the C library itself).  It's
> hard-coded.
>
> Try:
>
> $ sort -t: +2 -nr /etc/passwd | head -1
>
> to see the highest uid currently in /etc/passwd.
>
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 11:33:05PM -0400, Steven B. Parsons wrote:
> > root at twister[607]> more /usr/include/sys/param.h | grep MAXUID
> > #define MAXUID          2147483647      /* max user id */
> >
> > Im guessing that if I uncomment that out and do a reconfig reboot
> > I should be good . Currently there is nothing set for that variable and
> > im not able to find out what the default is.
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