From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 19 03:38:47 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id DAA17283 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 03:38:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (brosenga.st.pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id DAA17276 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 03:38:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA22912; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 03:38:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 03:38:40 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre To: "G.A.Grjetarsson Sysadmin of islandia.is" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 141 group member limit? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, G.A.Grjetarsson Sysadmin of islandia.is wrote: > > It works over here to just to remove users from the group line > having just group info, but no users following > > change line > > user:*:3000:user,user,user > > into > > user:*:3000: > > I fix this on monthly basis, and it works fine. > This is not a really good solution because some programs don't check for the user's gid, instead they check in /etc/group -- kind of a bad behavior IMO but one must deal with it. > > On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Cliff Addy wrote: > > > I recently added the 142nd member of a group and the group ceased to > > exist, as far as fbsd was concerned. Take out one and it works fine. > > > > Have I hit another one of those silly hard-coded limits? Is it kernel > > recompile time *again*? And *why* 141? > > > > I love fbsd most of the time, but ... > > > > Cliff > > > > > > > Ben The views expressed above are not those of the Worker's Compensation Board of Queensland, Australia.