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From: batie@agora.rdrop.com (Alan Batie)
Subject: Re: adduser problem
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In-Reply-To: <199608131044.MAA00442@campa.panke.de> from "Wolfram Schneider" at Aug 13, 96 12:44:04 pm
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> LIMITS
>      A group cannot have more than 200 members. The maximum line length of
>      /etc/group is 1024 characters. Longer lines will be skiped.

If it's the user's primary group (e.g. the one in the password file), they
don't need to be in the group file, so this limit doesn't apply.  That's
how I got around it.

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