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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Cliff Addy <fbsdlist@revelstone.jvm.com>
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Subject: Re: 141 group member limit?
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On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Cliff Addy wrote:

> I recently added the 142nd member of a group and the group ceased to 
> exist, as far as fbsd was concerned.  Take out one and it works fine.
> 
> Have I hit another one of those silly hard-coded limits?  Is it kernel 
> recompile time *again*?  And *why* 141?

Actually, it's a 1024 character limit on the line I believe.

Split your group or hack the system to support a longer group line length.

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