[pmwiki-users] DBauth question

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 09:01:18AM -0400, Jason Frisvold wrote:
> > > My current system works
> > > fine, but is a htpasswd file really plausible if you have say a 1000
> > > users?  Or would it be a bit slow?
> 
> There is a limitation to the number of users you can have in that
> file.  I forget the exact number, but when you run into it, you likely
> won't know and it will drive you crazy trying to figure out whats
> going on.  Basically, once you hit that magic number, any additional
> users won't authenticate..  Really frustrating.

There may be a limit on the size of .htpasswd for apache, but PmWiki
shouldn't have any such limitation.

Pm