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Date:      Mon, 3 Mar 1997 12:35:26 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Chip Marshall <chip@jlc.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Quesions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: A quota question
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970303123422.20520F-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <19970302155542.NJ45113@verdi.jlc.net>

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On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Chip Marshall wrote:

> I work for an ISP and am trying to impose quotas on our customer's web page
> directories. All of these users are in the same group, but when the group file
> has all of the users in the group line, quota will not recognize the group.
> If I remove some of the users, making the line in the group file shorter, quota
> will see the group. My question is, does quota need the users to be in the
> group file to impose the quota, or is thier being in the group (as stated in
> the passwd file) good enough?  If not, how can I get quota to see the group
> with all the usernames in the group file?

This appears to be a bug in the group file reading code.  There is a long
standing bug that group lines over 1024 characters will cause odd
problems.  REport this to hackers@freebsd.org or use send-pr and file a
bug report.  

In the meantime, split your group into two and it should work OK.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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