From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jul 15 16:20:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA00822 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 16:20:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bsd.fs.bauing.th-darmstadt.de (bsd.fs.bauing.th-darmstadt.de [130.83.63.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA00801 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 1997 16:20:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from panke.panke.de (anonymous215.ppp.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.215]) by bsd.fs.bauing.th-darmstadt.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA24220; Wed, 16 Jul 1997 01:20:26 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wosch@localhost) by panke.panke.de (8.8.5/8.6.12) id AAA00816; Wed, 16 Jul 1997 00:29:43 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 00:29:43 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199707152229.AAA00816@panke.panke.de> From: Wolfram Schneider To: Darius Ramanauskas Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Help ! /etc/group problems.... In-Reply-To: <33CB5679.E4899303@kada.lt> References: <33CB5679.E4899303@kada.lt> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Darius Ramanauskas writes: >After doing 'adduser foo', the group (etc: users) to which it belongs >disappears. 'pw' or 'chown' >says that the group does not exist. I found that this happens then lengh of >line in the /etc/group file >exeed 1023 chars. So the question is how to solve that problem, is there any >work around. The 1024 characters limit disappears in FreeBSD 3.0-current ;-) >Or I should separate users to different groups?.... You should not add the login group to /etc/group. This is redundant and was a misfeature of adduser. -- Wolfram Schneider http://www.apfel.de/~wosch/