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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: The situation on apple.com
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Date: 20 Mar 91 14:59:09 GMT
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In article <D88-JWA.91Mar20085312@byse.nada.kth.se> d88-jwa@byse.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes:
>Erhm... just _how_ large a passwd file (eq.) do you think is
>feasible ? Presently, a 10k lines passwd file, searched lineary
>(that's the way it is, folks) isn't my idea of fun.

That's *not* the way it is.  We use hashed password files on our large
user-community machines.  One of them has 9000 users.

Of course, like any other useful modification (job control, vi, networking,
fast file system), it will take a while to get into System V stuff, like A/UX.
--
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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