On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 9:30 AM, Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> wrote:
AUSAM contains extensive modifications to the code around the passwd handling - it uses a binary hashtable-based passwd database, with separate first and last name fields and a "staff or student number" (referred to in code as "other").

​And I have a dim memory that when we started using Eight Edition (at
Basser) the password file was a mounted process.​