From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 2 14:38:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA02251 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 14:38:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from purcell.jlc.net (root@purcell.jlc.net [199.201.159.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA02244 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 14:38:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jason@localhost) by purcell.jlc.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) id RAA06260 for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 17:38:46 -0400 From: "Jason T. Nelson" Message-Id: <199607022138.RAA06260@purcell.jlc.net> Subject: /etc/group problem To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 17:38:46 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I know this has been mentioned before as I have seen it in the mailing list archives, but unfortunately, either I didn't get all the replies or I'm missing something terribly obvious. Adduser is now complaining (as well as chown and ls) about invalid groups. jason@purcell> chown user.www userdirectory chown: www: illegal group name 'ls' chokes as well, spitting out only the numeric GID. The www group has gotten rather large, but isn't a 1024 character limit on a line in /etc/group a tad silly? -- Jason T Nelson