On Wed, 19 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Anand Buddhdev wrote:
>
> > search is still linear. The BSDs on the other hand make a DB database
> > out of the /etc/passwd, and so it's much faster to lookup.
>
> really, one should qualify what version of BSD you mean here. if I dig up
> a system running BSD 4.2 or 4.3 will it really store the password in a
> database? I think not.
hmm.. who is installing 4.2 or 4.3 BSD nowadays ? all major versions of
*BSD are running on 4.4 BSD for quite a long time. :)
Tomasz Lipski
