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From: Darius Ramanauskas <dara@kada.lt>
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Hello All,

Here are the problems description:

After doing 'adduser foo', the group (etc: users) to which it belongs
disappears. 'pw' or 'chown'
says that the group does not exist. I found that this happens then lengh of
line in the /etc/group file
exeed 1023 chars. So the question is how to solve that problem, is there any
work around. Or I should
separate users to different groups?....

Thank you

Darius

P.S. I know that someone of you are running with thousands of users. How do you
solve this?
Yes OS is FBSD 2.1.7