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Date:      Fri, 15 Sep 1995 17:20:57 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Mark Hittinger <bugs@ns1.win.net>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Max Users (fwd)
Message-ID:  <199509152120.RAA14282@ns1.win.net>

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> As Ugen J.S.Antsilevich wrote:
> > >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...
> Read Guido's mail.  About 10 days ago.

I am getting ready to do some serious testing on Guido's patch here this
weekend.  Guido's patch is for updating in-place the password file record
when we are updating a single record.  Right now we rebuild the entire
file.  It will be a big help if it works.

I'm not sure it addresses the issue of rebuilding the entire file when an 
account is added or deleted.  I have to study the patch more.

Even with Guido's welcome work I still think that we have a scalability
problem here and I'm considering a total re-write.  Thanksgiving vacation
is coming up soon :-)

Regards,

Mark Hittinger
Internet Manager
WinNET Communications, Inc.
bugs@win.net



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