Gjermund Sorseth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Clemens Hermann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 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.
We've got servers with 1,200,000 users in /etc/passwd and they still
work fine. But we'll probably switch that setup before the passwd gets
much larger than this...
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