Re: aname_to_locaname vs gssapi svc/host.domain.org@REALM

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Harry Coin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nico, when an array only less than a couple dozen entries you can throw a
> huge database engine at it to sort if you want to, but you don't have to.

What part of "binary-searched sorted flat text file" matches "huge
database engine"?  That's what I told you I'm writing as the default
plugin.

> I can't foresee the /etc/k5login.d having more than three or four lines for
> perhaps 4 or 5 usernames.  If that day comes, then improve the backend.  [...]

I know of environments where the aname2lname DB could be much larger than that.

Nico
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