#1304 Can not change passwords or create users
System:
Redhat 7.1
Perl 5.1.6 (recent update)
webmin 1.110
Users (system): 17,000 +
When I access the change password module, it does not
display any users and the system process (miniserv.pl)
gets about 100% CPU time.
I tried changing the number of users to display to 0 and
I get the same result. Also, in the Users and Group
Module I can not create any users, the process gets
stucked.
I have tried with all past versions of webmin and I get
the same result. I have noticed that somehow the
system gets stuck in the search users or list users
methods of the code (getpwent functions) because
when I comment thos lines webmin works fine (of course
it doesn't displays any users and switches to the "There
are to many users on the system" option.
I somehow think this happened when I updated pearl to
5.1.6, but I have other servers with the same
configuration and those work just fine.
I would apreciate any comments regarding this matter.
Thanks.
ias
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I could see how that page might take a long time to display
if you have
17000 users, however it should appear eventually - unless
there is a bug
in the getpw* functions in Perl, as I have heard of
occasionally.
You should try running the following perl command at the
shell prompt to
see if is actually completes, and how long it takes :
perl -e 'setpwent(); while(@u = getpwent()) { print
join(":", @u),"\n" }'