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Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> types:
> :my FreeBSD box.  I even look at the .db files of passwd/master.passwd, and I still dont' 
> :get why BSD didn't just stick with plaintext versions of those as most other unixes have 
> :[well I only know of Linux and the fresh install of Solaris 8 here].
> 
>     Mmmmmm.... because when you have thousands of user accounts having the
>     password file DBMd makes things like 'ls -la', 'top', or anything else
>     that has to lookup a username (read: lots of programs) a whole lot faster.

Login was always my favorite example. It was taking long enough on
Ultrix at Berkeley that some of the things in the chain between a
dial-in user and the system would time out before it finished. Not
good.

	<mike

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