From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jan 5 20:49:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA2A214F7B for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 20:49:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom (helo=localhost) by misery.sdf.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 1264qx-0003wF-00; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 20:48:51 -0800 Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 20:48:50 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: Dan Babb Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: large password file In-Reply-To: <000701bf5628$3b186bc0$f804bed8@czone.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Dan Babb wrote: > i don't know if this pertains to this list, but since i run my isp with > freebsd, and i'm an isp this seemed most reasonable. > > currently i use ISPPower to interface with my machine (i know .. shoot me) > and its starting to take a very long time to build accounts or even edit the > master.passwd file via vipw > > i was curious .. what do isps do when their password file reaches 6k to 7k > .. to use still use the master.passwd file .. or is there some other option > to use, or something different? > > btw .. i'm also looking for new billing software. currently looking at > rodopi(?) for billing, but i'd like to hear some feedback on any types of > software billing at all possible > > thanks, > -d > > -d The rebuilding issue is quite a problem. However, for small updates it is possible to do a incremental update (copy the db files, update the one record, and then mv them back). Howerver, 6 to 7k users is pretty small. I have 25k+ (using NIS), and rebuilding from a new master.passwd file takes maybe 5 seconds on a PIII-600 with fast disks. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message