Re: large master.passwd

1999-05-15 Thread Roar Thronæs
On Fri, 14 May 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: :Hi : :On a site with 20k users in the master.passwd, and where NIS is not :trusted, the master.passwd is distributed to each workstation. :The pwd.db and spwd.db are sized around 10Mb. : :Sometimes, those .db files get corrupt. :I suspect it has

Re: large master.passwd

1999-05-15 Thread Matthew Dillon
: : : :On a site with 20k users in the master.passwd, and where NIS is not : :trusted, the master.passwd is distributed to each workstation. : :The pwd.db and spwd.db are sized around 10Mb. : : : :Sometimes, those .db files get corrupt. : :I suspect it has something to do with the machines being

Re: large master.passwd

1999-05-15 Thread Roar Thronæs
On Sat, 15 May 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: : : : :On a site with 20k users in the master.passwd, and where NIS is not : :trusted, the master.passwd is distributed to each workstation. : :The pwd.db and spwd.db are sized around 10Mb. : : : :Sometimes, those .db files get corrupt. : :I

large master.passwd

1999-05-14 Thread Roar Thronæs
Hi On a site with 20k users in the master.passwd, and where NIS is not trusted, the master.passwd is distributed to each workstation. The pwd.db and spwd.db are sized around 10Mb. Sometimes, those .db files get corrupt. I suspect it has something to do with the machines being reset etc before

Re: large master.passwd

1999-05-14 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 14), Roar Thron?s said: On a site with 20k users in the master.passwd, and where NIS is not trusted, the master.passwd is distributed to each workstation. The pwd.db and spwd.db are sized around 10Mb. Sometimes, those .db files get corrupt. I suspect it has something

Re: large master.passwd

1999-05-14 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hi : :On a site with 20k users in the master.passwd, and where NIS is not :trusted, the master.passwd is distributed to each workstation. :The pwd.db and spwd.db are sized around 10Mb. : :Sometimes, those .db files get corrupt. :I suspect it has something to do with the machines being reset etc