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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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