Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 18:28:24 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@hilink.com.au> To: Satya Devireddy <satya@dspsoft.com> Cc: Paul Stewart <paul@kawartha.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding Hundreds Of Users Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980930181541.11250A-100000@enya.hilink.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809300038140.20723-100000@srv.kapmail.com>
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On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Satya Devireddy wrote: > use can use adduser or pw to addusers. > > FYI > > I did a test about 3 months back adding 10000 users. > I took the script about aout 1.5 days to complete!!! (over the weekend) > where as deleteing them took about 8hrs. > > Initially it was fast adding about 1 user in about 1 or 2secs. > In the end it was taking more than a minute. If you have a very large list of users with associated passwords, it would be much better to write a perl script which generated the appropriate password file entries without doing the pwd_mkdb until the very end. It's not that hard, especially if all of the user accounts are to be set up in the same manner. Danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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