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Valentin Vidic wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 09:21:33AM +0200, Tim Bell wrote:
> 
>>(which is currently at 15,000 users).  One of the operations was taking 
>>8 minutes since it was doing an O(n**2) lookup on the users.
> 
> 
> nscd or libnss-db can be used to speed up the lookups.
> 
> But here is another idea: we use LDAP and create/delete accounts on the fly.

hmm, but how do you keep your accounting data, and permissions on files, 
straight?  creating accounts on the fly OK, but deleting them?

				JT