| Steve Langasek 2005-10-28, 4:51 pm |
| On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 07:24:28AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 27-Oct-05, 04:39 (CDT), Jonas Meurer <jonas@freesources.org> wrote:
[vbcol=seagreen]
> "Bloat"? The /etc/passwd on my development machine, which has seen all
> kinds of random server installs and removes, has grown to a whole 2K.
> So it could double before expanding into a second disk block. "Untidy",
> I'll grant you, but "bloat" seems excessive.
Nah, the biggest hit isn't disk space, it's NSS lookup times from having to
do a linear search through a flat-file /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. Well,
thank God no one uses pam_pwdb anymore, at least...
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