Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 00:29:43 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@apfel.de> To: Darius Ramanauskas <dara@kada.lt> Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Help ! /etc/group problems.... Message-ID: <199707152229.AAA00816@panke.panke.de> In-Reply-To: <33CB5679.E4899303@kada.lt> References: <33CB5679.E4899303@kada.lt>
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Darius Ramanauskas writes: >After doing 'adduser foo', the group (etc: users) to which it belongs >disappears. 'pw' or 'chown' >says that the group does not exist. I found that this happens then lengh of >line in the /etc/group file >exeed 1023 chars. So the question is how to solve that problem, is there any >work around. The 1024 characters limit disappears in FreeBSD 3.0-current ;-) >Or I should separate users to different groups?.... You should not add the login group to /etc/group. This is redundant and was a misfeature of adduser. -- Wolfram Schneider <wosch@apfel.de> http://www.apfel.de/~wosch/
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