Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 13:37:36 -0700 From: Joseph Scott <joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu> To: Chris Dorr <chris@townnews.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/groups Message-ID: <37B87690.2F9470BB@owp.csus.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990816132924.17206e-100000@zr3.lee.net>
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Chris Dorr wrote:
>
> So I went into /etc/groups and took 2 people out of that particular group
> and everything was working again with no problems.
>
> Obviously there is a limit to how many people can be in one group. What's
> the limit? Is there anyway around the group limit, without redoing the
> whole system?
>
> On this particular system we're running 2.2.5 Release.
>
On my 3.2R system,
>man group 5
.
LIMITS
.
In older implementations, a group cannot have more than 200
members. The
maximum line length of /etc/group is 1024 characters. Longer lines
will
be skipped. This limitation disappeared in FreeBSD 3.0. Older
binaries
that are statically linked, depend on old shared libraries, or
non-FreeB-
SD binaries in compatibility mode may still have this limits.
So the answer looks like yes, there are two limitations on 2.2.5R, a
group can not have more than 200 members, and any one line can not be
greater than 1024 characters.
I guess my question would be now, what are the limits for FreeBSD > 3.0
?
--
Joseph Scott
joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu
CSU Sacramento - Office Of Water Programs
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