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From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
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Subject: Re: Max Users
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 20:50:20 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <199509151819.UAA21645@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Sep 15, 95 08:19:53 pm
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J Wunsch wrote:
> 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.
> 

He is beta testing it right now, as am I. It works real quick 
(passwd(1), chsh and friends take 10 seconds for 11.000 line password
files.) Unfortunately, vipw will always take as long as it does now.

-Guido