From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 10 02:20:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA03366 for current-outgoing; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 02:20:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kanto.cc.jyu.fi (root@kanto.cc.jyu.fi [130.234.1.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA03348 for ; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 02:20:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (kallio@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kanto.cc.jyu.fi (8.7.2/8.7.2) with ESMTP id MAA23978; Tue, 10 Sep 1996 12:19:11 +0300 (EET DST) Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 12:19:08 +0300 (EET DST) From: Seppo Kallio To: Steve Ames cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: About adduser (FreeBSD 2.1.5) In-Reply-To: <199609092205.RAA22847@cioeserv.cioe.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. Seppo Kallio kallio@jyu.fi Computing Center Fax +358-14-603611 U of Jyväskylä 62.14N 25.44E Phone +358-14-603606 PL 35, 40351 Jyväskylä, Finland http://www.jyu.fi/~kallio