On 15.7.2010, at 23.58, Timo Sirainen wrote:

>> userdb passwd. Our LDAP directory might not be optimally configured. The 
>> group that administers it only really cares about binds, iteration can be 
>> rather slow:
>> 
>> [r...@cc-popmap7 ~]# time getent passwd | wc -l 
>> 51552
>> 
>> real    8m0.120s
>> user    0m2.507s
>> sys     0m1.093s
>> 
>> That comes out to just over 100 entries a second.
> 
> Maybe there could be a parameter to get the user list from a file (one 
> username per line) instead of userdb.

Added -f parameter for this.

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