On Wed, 20 May 1998, Mihai Ibanescu wrote:
> I am trying to buid support for another type of password databases
>(/etc/passwd and /etc/shadow are _slow_ for >2k users). I am trying to put
1. Install glibc.
2. Add to /etc/nsswitch.conf in the password section the db option.
3. Write a plain password sytle file wherever you want and run:
passwd2db </whereveryouwant/secondpasswd | makedb -o /var/db/passwd.db -
passwd2db is a script I extracted by the glibc sources:
#!/usr/bin/awk -f
# Filter to translate passwd files to glibc db files.
BEGIN { FS=":"; OFS=":"; cnt=0 }
/^[ \t]*$/ { next }
/^[ \t]*#/ { next }
{ printf "0%u ", cnt++; print }
/^[^#]/ { printf ".%s ", $1; print;
printf "=%s ", $3; print }
Andrea[s] Arcangeli
