Maximum size of a Unix MIT Kerberos database backend

[John Washington]

Our backend was last counted at over 200,000 principals and the only noticeable
impact (at this time) is that propagation time is around two minutes.

* garnett <nicolas.greneche at gmail.com> [2009-11-08 22:40]:
> Hi all,
> 
> In our University I wish to centralize authentication in a Linux MIT
> KDC. This operation will spawn a KDC with about 30 000 principals. Is
> it a problem for Kerberos MIT implementation ? We will run the 1.6
> version bundled with Debian Lenny.
> 
> Is there a need for tricks to handle such a database ?
> 
> Thanks for your piceces of advice.
> 
> Nico (http://blog.garnett.fr)
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-- 
John Washington  Network Security Officer, 
 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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