Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 00:36:45 +0100 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: group(5) limits Message-ID: <199612182336.AAA00506@campa.panke.de> In-Reply-To: <199612170557.AAA01510@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> References: <199612170124.CAA02231@campa.panke.de> <199612170557.AAA01510@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
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Bill Paul writes: >While removing the static membership limit of 200 is probably okay, NIS v2 >is permanently saddled with a record limit of 1024 bytes. The yp_mkdb(8) >utility enforces this. The limit is part of the yp.x protocol, consequently >to change it would break compatibility with all other NIS implementations. >This means these changes would be fine for local /etc/group files, but >you'd still be stuck with a 1024 byte line limit if you choose to use NIS. I can reduce the limit from 256K to 1k. But didn't we already break NIS with increasing user name length from 8 characters to 16 characters? Wolfram
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