On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 05:53:16AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Nah, the biggest hit isn't disk space, it's NSS lookup times from having to > do a linear search through a flat-file /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. Well, > thank God no one uses pam_pwdb anymore, at least...
One can use nscd if he/she is really concerned for that. But I think the cost of a hundred extra entries in /etc/{passwd,group} would stills be lost in the noise compared to distributed NSS methods like NIS, NIS+ or LDAP. Gabor -- --------------------------------------------------------- MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute Hungarian Academy of Sciences --------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]