[ILUG] Limitation of userID on RedHat 6.2

[Jonathan Bruce]

Hi - 

Is there any way of raising the ceiling on userID's on RedHat 6.2 ? I'm 
hitting a limit of 64k and I need to raise it to at least 128k. 

For example, if I add an two entries into /etc/passwd

test1::65535:10::/:/bin/bash
test2::65536:10::/:/bin/bash

I can login with user 'test1', but not with user 'test1'. Any ideas on 
how I can raise the barrier much appreciated. A possible fix will allow 
all authentications on this box to use NIS maps that are well 
established and are working fine for all Solaris boxes.

Cheers - 

-Jonathan