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- Subject: Re: 386 Unix - is 5,000 logins realistic?
- References: <1992Nov18.174008.23663@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- Organization: I.E.C.C.
- Date: 21 Nov 92 23:27:43 EST (Sat)
- From: johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine)
- Message-ID: <9211212327.AA22987@iecc.cambridge.ma.us>
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- >dunno just how bad it would be, but you could also:
- >a) sort your passwd file
- >b) get a pd getty-replacement, and hack it to do a binary search.
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- Actually, the majority of lookups in the password file are by ls, not by
- login. Getty never looks at the password file at all.
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- Perhaps if they use NIS, it'd work OK since NIS puts all of its maps into
- DBM databases.
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- Regards,
- John Levine, johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us, {spdcc|ima|world}!iecc!johnl
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