From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 15 3:31:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C39D537B74F for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 03:31:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12VBJF-000Huc-00; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 10:45:49 +0000 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12VBJF-000Iob-00; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 10:45:49 +0000 Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 10:45:49 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: John Starkey Cc: Jim Smart , FreeBSD Subject: Re: Changing shells. Message-ID: <20000315104549.C16722@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <7DC4EFF7C2FED2119BCD0000E8D5E42B378F84@mail.internal.tsw.com.au> <38CF44DB.BC38DA55@polaris.umuc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <38CF44DB.BC38DA55@polaris.umuc.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Starkey wrote: >> There is a copy of the file /etc/passwd stored in memory. >> This is what is used for authenification of logins. It is >> read at boot time. > > Isn't that kinda inefficient?? Indeed it would be, if it were true. I'm pretty certain FreeBSD does no such thing. (If it were only read at boot time, you'd have to reboot to add a user! I know this isn't the case.) -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message