Clemens Hermann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> how can I use a password database instead of a textfile to authenticate
> pop-users in qmail?
Easy. Make a C library that implements getpwnam() such that it looks
up users in a Berkeley DB or GDBM database, then link the library
into the stock checkpassword. No need to switch software or change any
existing source code.
> Now my question: how many users can be kept within a text passord
> file until it gets slow?
In my experience, about 10000 but it probably varies. I ran into that
limit a few years back and made a C library package as described above
that I can probably make available if you like.
Today, my server has roughly one million mail accounts and my current
password authentication scheme is a bit more sophisticated,
but that's another story.
--
Gjermund Sorseth
