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Date:      Tue, 3 Dec 1996 13:24:27 +0200 (EET)
From:      Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
To:        Andrew Stesin <stesin@gu.net>
Cc:        "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su>, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Does anybody need it ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.961203132037.7732A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.961203105924.19203C-100000@creator.gu.kiev.ua>

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On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, Andrew Stesin wrote:

> 
> Hello Serge,
> 
[snip]

> 
> 	I agree wholeheartly with you here; probably default of up to 2048
> 	users/group and 16k bytes would be Ok?  (Hope it won't be too big
> 	a waste of resources).
> 

Hmm... I thought you could have several lines with one group?

Like in:

users:*:30000:user1,user2,user3,user4,user5,user6,....,user20
users:*:30000:user21,user22,user23,user24,...user40

etc.

Atleast for me it does work.

	Sander

> 	And another question: what about having /etc/group also
> 	indexed in [s]pwd.db? having more than some 3-4k accounts on a system,
> 	with (supposedly) a separate login group for each, + some people belonging
> 	to several groups -- might cause a considerable slowdown at getgrent(3)
> 	call.
> 
> --
> 		Best,
> 			Andrew Stesin
> 
> 		nic-hdl: ST73-RIPE
> 




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