Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (564 mails)

[Grzegorz Prokopski <prokopsk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeremiah Johnson wrote:
> 
> nono.  What he means is a database of username's passwords.   On freebsd it would be /etc/pwd.db and /etc/spwd.db.  When you have *tons* of users it speeds things up.  Looking on my SuSE box I dont see the util needed to make the database (pwd_mkdb) but then again, it may be different under linux.
> 
> -miah
> 
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 04:38:44PM +0100, Stiefenhofer, Marek ECOFIS wrote:
> > > I don't see any kind of passwd database on SuSE 6.4.
> >
> > /etc/passwd
> > /etc/shadow

If you mean just e-mail server it is possible to patch for ex. sendmail
to
use other auth. mechainsms. Other mail servers has such ability often
included
out of the box.

Or just go directly to:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/modules.html
You can find there pam_mysql, pam_pwdb and other modules, that should
help
You with keeping Your servers happy even with 10000's of users.

					Grzegorz Prokopski