From: Aaron W Morris (Decep@NETSCAPE.NET)
Date: Tue Aug 13 2002 - 23:07:44 EDT
Does each user correspond to a separate email account? If so, perhaps you should look into a virtual email account system. I have not done this with sendmail, but I have with qmail. Every account can be under a single user ID on the box and you can use a separate password checking utility with qmail's pop3d that uses its own passwd file instead of the system's.
Otherwise, if the system really needs all 24,000 users, perhaps something like NIS is in order.
-- -Aaron W Morris If not fully satisfied with this email, please return unread portion for a full refund. Offer void in Utah. Other restrictions apply. -ray <ray@OPS.SELU.EDU> wrote: >All, > >I am in the early stages of planning the migration our email system from >PMDF on VMS to Sendmail on AIX. This means i will have to batch add about >24,000 users on AIX. Has anyone done this before? I'm looking for a few >pointers... > >I tried a big mkuser script. But when the /etc/group line exceeds 2048, >mkusers start failing. Any workaround for this, besides having multiple >lines for the same group? Is there a way to just not add users to >/etc/group? I tinkered with /usr/lib/security/mkuser.default with no >luck. > >I also tried another technique of just creating /etc/passwd manually. >Then do usrck -y ALL to create /etc/security stanza's. However this also >started failing after a few thousand users... haven't figure out why. > >Any other ideas? Also can someone explain the /etc/security/.ids format >on AIX 5.1? > >I am pretty experienced with Unix/AIX, but admittedly have never dealt >with this many users on one system. Any pointers/gotchas are greatly >appreciated!! > >-Ray >-- >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org >Systems Engineer Southeastern Louisiana University >IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > __________________________________________________________________ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
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