From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 3 07:53:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA23675 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 07:53:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA23630 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 07:52:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.8.2/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA10986; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 17:48:49 +0200 (EET) Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 17:48:49 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: "Serge A. Babkin" cc: stesin@gu.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Does anybody need it ? In-Reply-To: <199612031207.RAA01265@hq.icb.chel.su> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, Serge A. Babkin wrote: > > > I agree wholeheartly with you here; probably default of up to 2048 > > > users/group and 16k bytes would be Ok? (Hope it won't be too big > > > a waste of resources). > > > > > > > Hmm... I thought you could have several lines with one group? > > > > Like in: > > > > users:*:30000:user1,user2,user3,user4,user5,user6,....,user20 > > users:*:30000:user21,user22,user23,user24,...user40 > > > > etc. > > > > At least the getgr...() manpage says that its behavior is undefined > if there are several lines for the same group. How would I perceive it acting in an undefined manner? If I don't notice anything different appart from the orinary behavioure, then it does indeed work for me. > > And would it work together with NIS ? > I can't even check that - I don't use NIS. So I have no way of knowing. Sander > -SB >