From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 10 10:02:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA25215 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 10:02:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (winter@sasami.jurai.net [207.31.78.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA25184 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 10:02:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA24238; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 13:18:41 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 13:18:40 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Gary Palmer cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How are people handling lots of accounts? In-Reply-To: <199801100555.AAA01049@mutara.noc.erols.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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 */