Auth. time & number of users (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Sun, 12 Jan 1997 20:20:01 -0800 (PST)

Once upon a time Philip A. Fitzpatrick shaped the electrons to say...
>I was wondering if anyone had noticed a significant delay in the amount of
>time it takes for radius (1.16) to authenticate in respect to having more
>users in your /etc/raddb/users file. What is the safe max to have in the

There is no 'max' as it depends a lot on the speed and load on the machine.

If you are noticing a slowdown I'd use the DBM system - I'd advise upgrading
to 2.0 to start.

>users file? Must the DEFAULT entry be the last entry in the users file for
>it to identify the user as one who should authticate via unix password or

Yes. It MUST be last as ALL users match it, any users listed after it
will not be seen.

-MZ

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