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baque (Philippe BAQUE) writes:
>* the time spent for login out can be very long for some users (and not for others)
>* the time to connect (log in) in a ftp session can be very long...
>  It seems to be proportional to the user's position in the /etc/passwd file !!

It would be interesting, how you resolve references to the paswd file,
did you use files or nis in /etc/vis.conf?

If you use "files", each utilty which gather information from passwd-file,
did have to scan through the passwd-file. If you have a rather large
passwd-file, you would see the difference for users which are at the top,
and those which are at the bottom of the file.

NIS (aka YP) did use dbm files, so a reference to passwd using NIS should
not suffer to the position in the passwd file. But I've seen in the
CDC-Solver, that EP/IX 1.4.2 has a Bug which also give you bad responses
to NIS requests. I did not experience this problem on my system, but I think its
also related to large passwd files. The entry in Solver says, that there
exists a patch, which fixes the most important utilities, and it will be
completly solved in 1.4.3 .

Sincerely,
Klaus Steinberger
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