Wat does wc /etc/passwd show ?
Are you running NIS ?
---Mike
At 09:13 PM 30/09/2003, Greg Goodman wrote:
Hello Mike,
I tried that and it didn't help. Is there anything else I can try?
Tuesday, September 30, 2003, 6:06:47 PM, you wrote:
MT> If you have a large password file, increase the cache size of pwd_mkdb
MT> cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/pwd_mkdb
MT> edit pwd_mkdb.c
MT> On line 74 you see MT> HASHINFO openinfo = { MT> 4096, /* bsize */ MT> 32, /* ffactor */ MT> 256, /* nelem */ MT> 2048 * 1024, /* cachesize */ MT> NULL, /* hash() */ MT> 0 /* lorder */ MT> };
MT> do something like
MT> HASHINFO openinfo = { MT> 4096, /* bsize */ MT> 32, /* ffactor */ MT> 256, /* nelem */ MT> 32 * 2048 * 1024, /* cachesize */ MT> NULL, /* hash() */ MT> 0 /* lorder */ MT> };
MT> Then
MT> make depend MT> make MT> make install
MT> ---Mike
MT> At 08:51 PM 30/09/2003, Greg Goodman wrote:
>>Hello Everyone,
>>
>>I have a server running freebsd 4.8.
>>When you type the command "passwd" it hangs for more than 2 minutes
>>before it finally responds and prompts to change an existing users
>>password.
>>
>>Can anyone shed some light on this issue?
>>
>>Thanks for the help.
>>
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>>
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