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Reply-To: "Troy Settle" <rewt@i-Plus.net>
From: "Troy Settle" <rewt@i-Plus.net>
To: "Philippe SCHACK" <phschack@inba.fr>,
        "Wolfram Schneider" <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: /etc/group limit
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 15:23:46 -0400
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I solved this by not adding each user to the group file.

I have a group called 'dialup' (id: 10000) that almost every user is a
member of, but it's assigned through the passwd file only.

I was once told the reason for why FreeBSD defaults to adding each user to
his own group, but I fail to remember why.  Also, I fail to understand why a
user must be added to the group file if his group is already assigned in the
passwd file.

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Troy Settle <st@i-Plus.net>
Network Administrator, iPlus Internet Services
http://www.i-Plus.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To: Philippe SCHACK <phschack@inba.fr>
Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Wednesday, October 15, 1997 7:54 PM
Subject: Re: /etc/group limit


>Philippe SCHACK <phschack@inba.fr> 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   <wosch@apfel.de>   http://www.apfel.de/~wosch/
>