Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 13:18:40 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: Gary Palmer <gjp@erols.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How are people handling lots of accounts? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980110131558.1548R-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <199801100555.AAA01049@mutara.noc.erols.net>
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On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Gary Palmer wrote: > (Unless you hack CDB to allow the data to be changed without the key > being changed .. since the data (the password) will be the same > length, in theory, its possible) Actually, doing the mods to CDB to make it deal with fixed length records would be fairly useful. You could update the entire data record (not the key) and have CDB pad the rest with \0s. Once you are to the point with having to deal with CDB you should really be using a real database to store the data and generating your CDB files from that. /* Matthew N. Dodd | A memory retaining a love you had for life winter@jurai.net | As cruel as it seems nothing ever seems to http://www.jurai.net/~winter | go right - FLA M 3.1:53 */
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