On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 16:07:30 -0500, Egan
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 20:45:41 +0100, Grzegorz Prokopski
wrote: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/modules.html You can find there pam_mysql, pam_pwdb and other modules, keeping Your servers happy even with 10000's of users.
Last night however, somewhere I read that pwdb was slow. I'll have to try and find that again.
Now I know why they said that. They were talking about RADIUS clients authenticating via PAM pwdb, and in the SuSE pwdb docs I just read, pam_pwdb is nothing more than a wrapper to the /etc/passwd file! Arrggh! That's what I'm trying to avoid. If /etc/passwd is not a database, then each lookup must be a simple linear search. Maybe pam_mysql is a possibility, but I've not had time to get mysql running yet. Egan