Re: Suggested dual human/binary interface for proc/devfs

From: Henning P. Schmiedehausen (hps@tanstaafl.de)
Date: Wed Apr 12 2000 - 02:28:03 EST

andrea@suse.de (Andrea Arcangeli) writes:

>Use the `db' format in /etc/nsswitch.conf with lots of users. It uses low
>complexity algorithm for the lookup operation. It only requires you to
>rebuild the db after each update of the ASCII passwd file.

Solaris? HP/UX? BSD? They have a "db" format? The same "db" as you?

The world is not homogenous (Thank god, or it would be "Windows NT"
everywhere).

Then again, there is NIS, its ugly cousin NIS+ and of course LDAP.

And X.500 but we're not exactly into S&M here.

        Regards
                Henning 

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