From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Oct 15 16:29:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA17859 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 16:29:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (root@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA17846 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 16:28:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from panke.panke.de (anonymous218.ppp.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.218]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.8.6/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA14778; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 01:20:42 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wosch@localhost) by panke.panke.de (8.8.5/8.6.12) id BAA00850; Thu, 16 Oct 1997 01:16:30 +0200 (MET DST) To: Philippe SCHACK Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/group limit References: <3.0.1.32.19971015203448.0086a6a0@mail.inba.fr> From: Wolfram Schneider Date: 16 Oct 1997 01:16:25 +0200 In-Reply-To: Philippe SCHACK's message of Wed, 15 Oct 1997 20:34:48 +0200 Message-ID: Lines: 17 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Philippe SCHACK writes: > It seems there is a limit for the maximum length of the /etc/group file of > 1024 bytes after which the command chgrp answer 'illegal group name'. There is a 1024 character and a 200 member limit in FreeBSD 2.x See also group(5). > Is there something to change to avoid it ? a) define a larger buffer in src/lib/libc/gen/getgrent.c, e.g. 8192 chars, and recompile your libc. b) update to FreeBSD-current ;-) -- Wolfram Schneider http://www.apfel.de/~wosch/