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Date:      Thu, 19 Dec 1996 03:38:40 -0800 (PST)
From:      Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
To:        "G.A.Grjetarsson Sysadmin of islandia.is" <gambri@islandia.is>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 141 group member limit?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.961219033744.22906A-100000@narcissus.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.961219112007.20522E-100000@hummer.islandia.is>

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On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, G.A.Grjetarsson Sysadmin of islandia.is wrote:

> 
> It works over here to just to remove users from the group line
> having just group info, but no users following
> 
> change line
> 
> user:*:3000:user,user,user
> 
> into
> 
> user:*:3000:
> 
> I fix this on monthly basis, and it works fine.
> 

This is not a really good solution because some programs don't check for
the user's gid, instead they check in /etc/group -- kind of a bad behavior
IMO but one must deal with it. 

> 
> On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Cliff Addy wrote:
> 
> > I recently added the 142nd member of a group and the group ceased to 
> > exist, as far as fbsd was concerned.  Take out one and it works fine.
> > 
> > Have I hit another one of those silly hard-coded limits?  Is it kernel 
> > recompile time *again*?  And *why* 141?
> > 
> > I love fbsd most of the time, but ...
> > 
> > Cliff
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 



 Ben

The views expressed above are not those of the Worker's Compensation 
Board of Queensland, Australia.





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