On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, me wrote:
> The main reason for this, is that I have a belive (not verified.so if
> someone has, please let me know) that if I have passwd file (normal unix
> one) and the number of users increases substantially say to 50000, then
> things may slow down, when authentication is done for the popper. Hence
Hi,
as far as I know that primarily depends on your OS. If I remember right,
with 2.51 or 2.6 Sun introduced a different (much faster) technique to
access /etc/passwd (or it's shadow) than they did use before.
I don't know of any other OS, not even my own (HP-UX 10.20). The only
thing that's known to me is that one needs a patch for UIDs bigger than
2^16 :)
cheerio,
Volker
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