From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Apr 22 19:09:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA25571 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 19:09:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (winter@sasami.jurai.net [207.172.25.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA25559; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 19:09:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA28922; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 22:08:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 22:08:55 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: "Kevin P. Neal" cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need a common passwd file among machines In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19970420204545.008f9a20@mindspring.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 20 Apr 1997, Kevin P. Neal wrote: > I would hate to see 50,000 line long /etc/passwd files copied everywhere. Its not pretty. IMHO the Unix UID/GID model breaks down around 20k users. We've got 200k users in an email system and we're moving to code that stores username/password entries in a CDB map instead of a password file. /* Matthew N. Dodd | A memory retaining a love you had for life winter@jurai.net | As cruel as it seems nothing ever seems to http://www.jurai.net/~winter | go right - FLA M 3.1:53 */