bin/51148 Slow vipw and fast pwd_mkdb

Alex Semenyaka alexs at ratmir.ru
Mon Apr 21 03:50:18 PDT 2003


The following reply was made to PR bin/51148; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Alex Semenyaka <alexs at ratmir.ru>
To: Doug Barton <DougB at freebsd.org>
Cc: Alex Semenyaka <alexs at ratmir.ru>, freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org,
	freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org, freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/51148 Slow vipw and fast pwd_mkdb
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 14:49:46 +0400

 Hi,
 
 On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 02:11:34PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
 > Having been in a "mondo huge master.passwd file" situation myself, my
 > comment is that people in this situation should probably not be relying on
 > tools like vipw to manage their stuff.
 
 Actually, there is a such corporative policy in the ISP I've taken that huge
 master.passwd for the test. The main ideas: 1) no automatic changes in the
 master.passwd 2) time to time visual check and fix of users' data in
 master.passwd (heh, column from 'master.passwd's). May be good, may be bad,
 but it exists.
 
 > However, my feelings aren't strong
 > enough to prompt me to close your PR, so good luck. :)
 
 Thanks :)
 
 								SY, Alex


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