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Date:      Thu, 25 Jun 1998 00:31:54 +0200
From:      Wolfram Schneider <bsd@panke.de.freebsd.org>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: adduser chmod permissions
Message-ID:  <19980625003154.09187@panke.de>
In-Reply-To: <199806240253.MAA17918@gsms01.alcatel.com.au>; from Peter Jeremy on Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 12:53:31PM %2B1000
References:  <199806240253.MAA17918@gsms01.alcatel.com.au>

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On 1998-06-24 12:53:31 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> - /etc/group is limited to 1024 char lines and no more than 200 users
>   per group.  Unfortunately, these particular arbitrary limits appear
>   to be spread around in a variety of places (I've found 4 different
>   places where the 200 users per group limit is defined, and there may
>   be others.  I haven't even looked for the 1024-char line limit).

This was fixed 18 months ago in 
src/lib/libc/gen/getgrent.c rev 1.14

Wolfram

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