Den tis 23 jan. 2024 kl 10:35 skrev Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>:
> > Honesltly, I would completely remove support for the database versions
> > of these files as I do not see the benefit of them at all with login.conf(5),
> > they just overcomplicate things for no reason at all.
>
> I'd prefer that. The db files might have mattered 25 years ago on a busy
> system but they seem to be an anachronism now.

In my experience, as logins go, only passwd would (in certain corner
cases) actually need a DB if any, the rest of the files would only
have a small handful of entries anyhow.

I've run openbsd systems with some 180k+ users in passwd, but groups
or login.conf entries were still very small.

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