Auth/Access Question

[Russ Allbery]

Jeffrey M Vinocur <jeff at litech.org> writes:

> The Perl and Python hooks are already in place.  And no one's ever
> complained about the time it takes to run `ckpasswd` for an incoming
> connection (I expect it's insignificant against the other things that
> occur when a new user connects, honestly).

Clayton did, actually, which is why we have Perl hooks, but I think the
server has to be pretty significantly high volume in terms of incoming
connections before it's an issue.  Something on the order of a really
large ISP.  (And most large ISPs avoid the authentication issue by using
IP address ranges.)

And yeah, you're likely to run into a lot of other issues first.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

    Please send questions to the list rather than mailing me directly.
     <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/questions.html> explains why.