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Date:      Tue, 10 Sep 1996 12:19:08 +0300 (EET DST)
From:      Seppo Kallio <kallio@cc.jyu.fi>
To:        Steve Ames <steve@cioeserv.cioe.com>
Cc:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: About adduser (FreeBSD 2.1.5)
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.92.960910121647.2431S-100000@kanto.cc.jyu.fi>
In-Reply-To: <199609092205.RAA22847@cioeserv.cioe.com>

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On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Steve Ames wrote:

> > There is some problems in adduser
>
> You betcha. Problem I'd wager is the way it handles /etc/group.
>
> One group gets longer than maximum line size and then things
> start getting weird. Take a peek.

Yes. Adduser is adding all users to some group in /etc/group
If you add many users to the same group adduser starts to fail. There is
some limit how many users can be in same group in /etc/group.

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