SUMMARY: slow useradd on solaris 2.6

From: Aleksandar Milivojevic (alex@srce.hr)
Date: Mon Oct 05 1998 - 13:13:08 CDT


Many thanks to:

James Wendling <jbwendl@bnpcn.com>
Jim McVey <jmcvey@nhgri.nih.gov>
Rik Schneider <rik@netasset.com>
Rick Lantaigne <Rick.Lantaigne.lantaign@nt.com>

The solution was to install patch 105397-02.

The original question was:

> Recently I upgraded one of our servers from Solaris 2.5.1 to Solaris
> 2.6. After upgrading useradd command become very slow. It takes up
> to 10 minutes to add a single user on an almost idle Ultra Enterprise
> 3000.
>
> It seems that useradd calls passmgmt program which copies passwd and
> shadow files into ptmp and stmp, and this coping takes ages to finish.
>
> Passwd and shadow files have more than 10000 entries. All recommended
> patches are installed on the system. Nscd daemon is running with
> default configuration.
>
> Does anybody else have this problem, and is there any other solution
> other than writing my own useradd program or waiting for patches
> (assuming problem is not cosed by me misconfiguring something)?

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