splitting big authorized_keys files

[Michael Tokarev]

Peter Stuge wrote:
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> I believe someone suggested using cdb by Dan J. Berstein, my experiences
> with that database, although somewhat shallow, tells me it's well-suited for
> the job.
> 
> Please do check license and portability status of whatever package you
> decide to use, "You may distribute unmodified copies of the cdb package.
> Packages that need to read cdb files should incorporate the necessary
> portions of the cdb library rather than relying on an external cdb library."
> and "cdb works only under UNIX." applies to cdb, e.g. I would guess that the
> wording in the license will be a problem, should you want your changes
> included in mainstream OpenBSD OpenSSH, and probably in -portable, too.

For the free cdb packages, one may take a look at freecdb (repackage of
older cdb code for Debian), or my tinycdb package (this is an independent
implementation, written from scratch) - http://www.corpit.ru/mjt/tinycdb.html
Reportedly, it does work under win32 (in cygwin environment).

/mjt