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From: "Ugen J.S.Antsilevich" <ugen@latte.worldbank.org>
Subject: Re: Max Users 
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>I think the guy with his 11000 entries in the password file had a
>small problem in that each run of passwd(1) or chsh(1) did take some
>amount of time. :)
>
>But Guido van Roij came up with a proposal... not sure what's up
>there.
I do not know how this works right now , but some simple database
like db which can store by key will solve all problemms for arbitrary
amount of users (even for 11000).You basically need two of them - by username a
and by uid...

--Ugen