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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
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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