bug found in password caching code in HEAD branch

Beau Kuiper ekuiperba at cc.curtin.edu.au
Fri Jun 11 19:26:13 GMT 1999


On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > to leave it in there.  Anyone have any philosophical objections in
> > general to const?
> 
> no, go for it: const is good.  it would be excellent if you could fix this
> hash code.

I may be on weed or something, but it feels wrong to me that we solve
the password lookup problem with a hash table. Why doesn't the samba
code do the password lookup once, and then remember that entry for
any further info, instead of issue the password lookup multiple times?

Beau Kuiper
ekuiperba at cc.curtin.edu.au


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