From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 16 14:50:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pebkac.owp.csus.edu (pebkac.owp.csus.edu [130.86.232.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C16114C46 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 14:50:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu) Received: from owp.csus.edu (mothra.ecs.csus.edu [130.86.76.220]) by pebkac.owp.csus.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA24857; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 13:37:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <37B87690.2F9470BB@owp.csus.edu> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 13:37:36 -0700 From: Joseph Scott X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Dorr Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/groups References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message