On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 07:24:28AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 27-Oct-05, 04:39 (CDT), Jonas Meurer <jonas@freesources.org> wrote: > > it produces at least a bloated passwd/group/shadow file. > "Bloat"? The /etc/passwd on my development machine, which has seen all > kinds of random server installs and removes, has grown to a whole 2K. > So it could double before expanding into a second disk block. "Untidy", > I'll grant you, but "bloat" seems excessive. Nah, the biggest hit isn't disk space, it's NSS lookup times from having to do a linear search through a flat-file /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. Well, thank God no one uses pam_pwdb anymore, at least... -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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