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From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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To: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
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Subject: Re: group(5) limits
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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