From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Feb 21 6: 7:25 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62AE137B401 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 06:07:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from mercury.pathwaynet.com (mercury.pathwaynet.com [216.46.200.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B597743F75 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 06:07:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sturdee@pathwaynet.com) Received: from sun.mikesweb.com ([216.46.200.114]) by mercury.pathwaynet.com with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18mDqU-0002DE-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 09:08:10 -0500 Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 09:07:51 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Sturdee X-X-Sender: sturdee@sun.mikesweb.com To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: yp & long lines Message-ID: <20030221090220.K14308@sun.mikesweb.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *18mDqU-0002DE-00*Wql65AV1s0M* Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm doing user access control to servers by making a group for each service, and putting users into groups of services. Their primary group is the same as the username, not allowed access to anything. In building the NIS database, I got the following error on a test group line with ~ 9000 users: Updating group.byname... yp_mkdb: data too long: Any suggestions for getting around this? or a better way of accomplishing this? Thanks -Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message