[2813] in Kerberos
re: Kerberos maximum principal question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elizabeth Hawes)
Wed Sep 15 17:39:25 1993
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Cc: hawes@athena.tay.dec.com
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 93 17:15:16 EDT
From: Elizabeth Hawes <hawes@athena.tay.dec.com>
>>The answer is that under DecAthena(tm), you can only have 32,000
>>accounts. But this limitation has nothing to do with Kerberos, but with
>>the allowable range of user uid's that can be used under Ultrix.
Ted is correct that there is no limit in Kerberos for the number of
principals. The limitation is strictly for user in Moira accounts to deal with
the problem on ULTRIX. DECathena engineering is working on a solution
to allow more uid's (based on the appropriate maximum for the Operating
systems being run) for those sites not running ULTRIX.
In addition, DECathena versions of xlogin and login do check the return
value of the setuid() call just in case.
elizabeth hawes
DECathena engineering
