> > Clemens Hermann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Now my question: how many users can be kept within a text passord
> > > file until it gets slow?
> >
> > Gjermund Sorseth replies:
> > In my experience, about 10000 but it probably varies.
>
> Jenny Holmberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replies:
> 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...
I should have added that my number of 10000 comes from the days before
some vendors added caching, like Sun with their nscd program. With
these new schemes the number can be much higher, but programs
like nscd introduce other problems and I recomend against using them
when the number of /etc/passwd entries gets very very large.
Gjermund Sorseth
