On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 08:48 -0800, 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.
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