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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!cs.mu.OZ.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news-dc.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.sprintlink.co.za!ilink3.nis.za!usenet From: Keith Waters <keith@ilink.nis.za> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Large passwd files = long rebuilds Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 13:20:17 +0200 Organization: Network Information Services Lines: 12 Message-ID: <332E7A71.3BB7@ilink.nis.za> Reply-To: keith@ilink.nis.za NNTP-Posting-Host: keith.nis.za Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37303 Hi there. Does anybody else get irritated with the fact that every time you change a password on a FreeBSD system that has a lot of users (>10000) it takes FOREVER to rebuild the password database? Does anybody have a work-around for this? Regards, Keith Waters (Interlink Internet Services) keith@nis.za