On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 11:47:38AM -0500, sean finney wrote: > please, please treat this machine politely. it's my workstation and > i have no qualms with turning off slapd if it's getting in the > way :) If you're using OpenLDAP, there is no way that this could ever be fast. But, your idea is not an unreasonable one. Simon