One way to solve slow logins with NT-domains

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

jani, do you want to do the cleanup?  i have committed your latest changes
so that other people can play with them and we'll see how they perform in
other environments too.

On Fri, 7 May 1999, Jeremy Allison wrote:

> I *love* Open Source :-).

hee hee
 
> This was a bunch of code that I knew I was going to have to write
> and now I don't :-).
> 
> A couple of comments.
> 
> Firstly, a slightly nicer way to do this would be to
> change the calls to wrappers around all the
> getpwxxx functions.
> 
> eg. getpwnam -> sys_getpwnam 
> 
> Check lib/system.c for details. We can then replace
> all getpwxxx calls to go through the wrappers and
> get a more coherent view into the users hash table.
> 
> Secondly we should add a hash by uid as well and allow
> lookups on both name and uid. Getting fancy we should
> also store this table in either a file or shared 
> memory and allow it to be shared across smbd's.
> 
> Great first hack though !
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	Jeremy Allison,
> 	Samba Team.
> 
> 
> 
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