On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Anand Buddhdev wrote:
> search is still linear. The BSDs on the other hand make a DB database
> out of the /etc/passwd, and so it's much faster to lookup.
really, one should qualify what version of BSD you mean here. if I dig up
a system running BSD 4.2 or 4.3 will it really store the password in a
database? I think not.
Personally unless users actually login to a machine I would keep them out
of /etc/passwd and put them somewhere else. it's one less security problem
to worry about.
RjL
