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Date:      Tue, 2 Apr 1996 16:42:24 +1000 (EST)
From:      Clary Harridge <clary@s4.elec.uq.edu.au>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   /etc/group entry overflow problem
Message-ID:  <199604020642.QAA29974@s4.elec.uq.edu.au>

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Hi 
on FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE (SPC) #0: Thu Feb  1 11:13:35 EST 1996

I am having trouble with my entries in /etc/group

I have 3 group entries with a large number of users in each group

Once the group line exceeds 1024 chars things go wrong

	`ls' can't determine a users group
	`lpr' fails when I try to use the printcap `rg' field

The lpr routines seem to use BUFSIZ = 1024 from <stdio.h>

I am not sure what `ls' is using to look in /etc/group

My query is :-

	Is there some central place where I can increase this limit, to
say 4096 chars, so that all utilities that want to access /etc/group
will be aware of the new limit?

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Clary Harridge		University of Queensland, QLD, Australia, 4072
			Phone: +61-7-3365-3636	Fax:   +61-7-3365-4999
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