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Xref: sserve comp.unix.admin:16801 comp.unix.bsd:13341 comp.unix.ultrix:21180 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!eff!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news.ecn.bgu.edu!psuvax1!news.cc.swarthmore.edu!hirai From: hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Efficient fingerd? Date: 26 Jan 1994 06:41:51 GMT Organization: Computing Center, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, USA Lines: 33 Message-ID: <2i53bf$5tc@larch.cc.swarthmore.edu> References: <2i3pnq$d3h@scratchy.reed.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: gingko.cc.swarthmore.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar) writes: : Our passwd setup is also pretty monstrous - 2000 entries over yp. Similar to Swarthmore' setup. I've found that YP lookups for entries above 1000 or so tend to take a very long time. You may want to have all finger requests go to the machine that has the /etc/passwd on local disk (instead of YP) and make a hashed version of it using mkpasswd. Finger should find entries quickly then. : I know there's GNU finger, but I've had some bad experiences with it : in the past I wouldn't recommend GNU finger on my worst enemy. It has a lot of bugs, a lot of silly assumptions which I didn't agree with and made me nervous about having to run as root (gads) which the documentation even *recommended*! Yikes! The only useful feature of GNU finger I miss is being able to finger an entry that wasn't in the /etc/passwd file by just deposting a file in a directory. That was nice. One day, I'll hack that in to decuac.dec.com:/pub/sources/finger.tar.Z Has someone done this already? If so, please let us know! I have way too much work to do fun stuff like this soon. -- hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai) | Unix Geek for Swarthmore College I don't speak for Swarthmore College | Computing Center, Swarthmore, PA, USA "I post, therefore I am." -Rene Descartes on Usenet <A HREF="http://www.cc.swarthmore.edu/hirai/">Click me.</A>