Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 18:07:50 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao <taob@nbc.netcom.ca> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, keith waters <keith4@ilink.nis.za> Subject: Re: Unreasonable rebuild time on large password files Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970402180612.4804M-100000@tor-adm1.nbc.netcom.ca> In-Reply-To: <19970402212443.OT00003@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, J Wunsch wrote:
>
> No need. It's already there. Guido once implemented incremental
> updates to the password database if only a single user's entry has
> been changed. They seem to be non-optional (much to my surprise :),
> and the default in FreeBSD 2.2 and above.
Ah, geez, that's right... I even remember pestering him about it a
long time ago. :) So the patches have been integrated? I didn't see
any mention of them in the man pages, so I presumed it was still
necessary to patch it separately. How do you enable the feature?
--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@netcom.ca)
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"
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