Slowness w/ large passwd file (fwd)

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

dana, here is a relevant message from the pam-list.

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Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 20:46:54 +0200
From: Kristof Van Damme <kvd at nli.be>
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Subject: Re: Slowness w/ large passwd file
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Michael K. Johnson wrote:
> 
> "Kristof Van Damme" writes:
> >Just confirming the phenomenon here. About 8 months ago we needed a
> >major CPU upgrade to overcome the problem on a machine with 9000
> >acounts.
> >We are now reaching 18.000 accounts and are faced with the same
> >problem.
> 
> Are you using passwd files or NIS?

passwd
 
> Have you tried using the pam_unix modules?  They are reportedly faster
> than pwdb at this time (pwdb has more features).

Eeh... on a stock RHL 5.0 I get:

[dlerror: /lib/security/pam_unix_auth.so: undefined symbol: crypt]

trying those modules.


Think I'm gonna compile a pamless POP daemon. See what difference that
makes.

Aeneas
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