Windows vs. Linux security

[Matthew Carpenter]

Kurt Wall wrote:

>In a 0.6K blaze of typing glory, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
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>>harley7 at mnsi.net wrote:
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>>>Here's a nice explanation of the flaws in Windows' design vs. the Unix
>>>design.
>>>http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1505008,00.asp
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>>While I'm usually first in line to sing the praises of Linux and Unix 
>>security, I sure wish we could beat this 64k limit on users and groups.  
>>If integrating to NDS, they can have millions of ID's.  How do I deal 
>>with authentication against that?  Well, manually you can be sure.  That 
>>stinks.
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>LDAP. 64-bit {G,U}IDs and tools and idioms that can deal with them.
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>Kurt
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Really?  I thought the LDAP Authenticators were still bound by 65536.  I 
would love to be wrong here... :)