Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 11:13:44 +0200 (SAT) From: keith waters <keith4@ilink.nis.za> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Unreasonable rebuild time on large password files Message-ID: <199704020913.LAA03056@ilink.nis.za>
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Hi all.. We've got rather a lot of users in our /etc/passwd and every time we change or add a password/login, we have to wait over TEN MINUTES for the 'database to rebuild' [And yes, we have a pretty reasonably powerful machine] This must be one of the worst cases of code/resourse optimisation, since changing a password means rebuilding EVERY SINGLE entry in the password databases. Surely this can all be done with one quick write to the relevant files? Does anybody out there have a working solution ? Please! Thanks Regards, Keith Waters (Interlink Internet Services) [Please preferably use keith@nis.za]
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