bug found in password caching code in HEAD branch

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Beau Kuiper wrote:

> 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?

same difference, if you ask me.  this only became a problem when the unix
<-> nt mapping code was added, due to the high number of unix password and
unix group calls required.