Re: newbie to cdb

Tim Goodwin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> The Unix password and group files would be ideal candidates for
> storing in a cdb file, but I haven't heard that anybody's done that
> yet.

Probably no one has felt a need, simply because the current text file format
isn't a performance bottleneck in most cases.

Someone did replace /etc/passwd with a more djb-like (and envdir-like)
directory structure with one file per field, one directory per account.  It
looked interesting, but haven't seen much about it since.

Charles
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