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Hi, Adam,

I don't want to comment on the rightness of a certain group limit, but I 
surely want to comment on the problem of migrating a working box into 
one on which no-one can log on. There should be a big message in 
UPDATING, best is ASCII-art with ANSI blinking letters... .-)

Kind regards,
k.j.

Adam C. Migus wrote:

> I think you'll find this documented in several UNIX books such as "The 
> Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System," for 
> example.  I believe it's regarded as "common knowledge" among UNIX 
> folk.  Whether it's right or wrong to regard it as such, document it 
> per implementation or even have it as a limitation is debatable I 
> suppose but it's there.


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