From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 2 22:51:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA01231 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 22:51:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA01223 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 22:51:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA17955 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 08:50:58 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA27833; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 08:21:03 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970403082103.GT06676@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 08:21:03 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unreasonable rebuild time on large password files References: <19970402212443.OT00003@uriah.heep.sax.de> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Brian Tao on Apr 2, 1997 18:07:50 -0500 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Brian Tao wrote: > Ah, geez, that's right... I even remember pestering him about it a > long time ago. :) So the patches have been integrated? I didn't see > any mention of them in the man pages, so I presumed it was still > necessary to patch it separately. How do you enable the feature? Guido doesn't seem to be very well in writing man pages. :-| The -u option to pwd_mkdb(8) ain't mentioned at all, although it's being used _by default_ if only a single user's entry is updated (passwd(1), or chpass(1), as opposed to vipw(8)). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)