shadow password question

[David A Rasmussen]

I've been told to look into installing shadow password stuff on our system.
Trouble is, we have some 3000 user accounts, maybe 120 logged in on a cci 6/32
in the afternoon, and the way this shadow stuff seems to work is that it
rebuilds the entire dbm file every time you change a password, let alone add
someone to the file. This would bring the system to its knees I'm afraid.

Is there any good reason why once can't just to dbm_inserts or whatnot and
leave the files in place? I'm talking about the stuff off ucbarpa.

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