[krbdev.mit.edu #2597] Fwd: Principal DB Size

[Ken Raeburn via RT]

Looks like we get database corruption if the file size hits 4G.

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> I am doing some testing with adding a  few million user entries in the 
> KDC principal database , I did use kadmin.local to input data into the 
> database . The problem I have now is , when the principal DB reaches 
> the size of 4294967296 bytes it gets corrupted , The questions are
>
> 1. How do you recover such a corrupted database (I tried kdb5_util 
> did'nt help)
> 2. Is there any limit on the no of users you can add or the size of 
> the principal DB
>
>
> Any Comments.
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> Kerberos Source : krb5-1.3.3
> Platform  - OS X 10.3.3
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> Brian
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