Hello,

It's been on the PAM mailing list a couple of times, but so
far I haven't seen any solution for the following problem:

On a system with >2000 users (I'm running one with 28.000),
user authentification is EXTREMELY SLOW, even on my dual
450Mhz machine. It takes seconds to let somebody login to
the popserver. Something really needs to be done about this.
This is a showstopper for RHL on machines with lots of
users. Try creating a large passwd file (say 20.000 users)
and you'll know what I mean.

I'm not a coder, I think it must be possible somehow to
accellerate user authentification. A simple grep on the
passwd file instantly finds the right account.

Greetings,

Aeneas