[techtalk] Multiple passwd lists ?

[Harald Welte]

On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 08:20:54AM -0500, Beverly Guillermo wrote:
> Has anyone managed a passwd and shadow list with more the 10,000 people
> on it?  Is there a way to possibly divide the passwd/shadow lists into
> smaller multiple files?  Something like passwd.master shadow.master,
> passwd.domainname1, shadow.domainname1, passwd.domainname2, and
> shadow.domainname2?

I would recommend using an ldap server as authentication source and 
the pam_ldap module to authenticate against ldap.

> Thanks,
> Beverly

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