From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 3 03:55:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA05052 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 03:55:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA04787 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 03:50:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA08265; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 13:24:28 +0200 (EET) Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 13:24:27 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: Andrew Stesin cc: "Serge A. Babkin" , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Does anybody need it ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 >