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Date:      Tue, 22 Apr 1997 22:08:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        "Kevin P. Neal" <kpneal@pobox.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Need a common passwd file among machines 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970422220342.20255A-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19970420204545.008f9a20@mindspring.com>

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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.

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