Enumerating password entries

[Jeremy Allison]

Jean Francois Micouleau wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> 
> > > A cleaner solution, if you don't mind a one-time startup
> > > cost, is to to a startsmbpwent(), getsmbpwent() endsmbpswent()
> > > sequence at startup to count the number of entries the
> > > first time you need it - and then stat() the file to
> > > get the last modified time which you then cache.
> >
> > oh.  good call.
> 
> Only valid for the smbpasswd file or if you have direct access to the
> file. How to you stat() a NIS+ or LDAP server ?
> 

Well yes that is a given :-). I wasn't talking about this
being a general method, but how you might efficiently
code this for the smbpasswd file case behind an abstact interface.

The idea is to have a "getsmbpwnum()" call that returns
the number of entries and then under the covers implement
it like this for the smbpasswd file case.

For LDAP & NIS+ you can do the correct LDAP'y and NIS+'y
things - it's just that I don't know what they are :-).

Jeremy.

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