Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 14:57:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Tao <taob@io.org> To: FREEBSD-HACKERS-L <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Cc: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl Subject: Incremental [s]pwd.db updates? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.92.960615143453.1497C-100000@zap.io.org>
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About 9 months ago, Guido van Rooij (guido@gvr.win.tue.nl) was
working on a modification to pwd_mkdb that allows for incremental
updating of the databases, for use with passwd/chfn/chsh and friends
when only the record of one user needs changing. What is its current
status?
We are moving one of our authentication servers from a BSD/OS 2.0
machine (which does have incremental pwd.db updating) to a FreeBSD
2.2-SNAP machine (which does not). It currently contains 14271 lines,
but will be growing to 150,000 or more before September. No problems
with uids > 65536, but it takes a little over 4 minutes to rehash on
an otherwise idle P100. With 150,000 users it will take the better
part of an hour for each update.
Is there any relatively stable code available for testing? I'd
really rather not have to press a BSD/OS machine into service just for
that one feature if I can get the same for FreeBSD (or NetBSD, for
that matter).
--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org, taob@ican.net)
Systems and Network Administrator, Internet Canada Corp.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"
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