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- From: chris@tisdec.tis.tandy.com
- Date: 10 Nov 92 10:02 CST
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: /etc/group BUG ultrix4.2A
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- /* Written 5:47 pm Nov 9, 1992 by mark@alsvid.UUCP in comp.unix.admin */
- /* ---------- "/etc/group BUG ultrix4.2A" ---------- */
-
- It seems that ultrix 4.2 has a nice little bug where the length of group entries
- is fixed at 1024 bytes. Any one entered against a group past this
- magic point does not belong to the group when they login.
-
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- Mark Garrett Internet: mark@arvak.une.edu.au Phone: +61 66 20 3859
- University of New England, Northern Rivers, Lismore NSW Australia.
- /* End of text from comp.unix.admin */
-
- There is a limit to the number and length of a group entry, and is documented
- somewhere in the amdinistration notes along with a work-around (Possibly in
- the BSD 4.2/3 manuals).
-
- There is a documented enhancement that will allow you to extend this
- capability. Basicly you have to manually add any additional users to this
- group in the future.
-
- First thing you need to do is duplicate the first 3 fields of the group
- entry on the following line so that you have two entries for that group.
- Second, at the point that people start to not belong to that group( or
- around 1000 characters) you need to insert a '\' followed immediatly by EOL.
- Move the remaining user ID's to the second line. Any NEW users will be added
- to the second entry for this group.
-
- You should end up with something like:
-
- group0:*:50:user1,user11,.....
- group1:*:51:user1,user2,........,user99,\
- group1:*:51:user100,user101,.....
- group2:*:52:user1,user11,.....
-
-
- The other alternative is to make the group, with all these users, their
- primary group, and just not list them on that group. (adduser(8) does this)
-
- Hope this helps. We currently use this on one of our systems running ULTRIX
- 4.2A. Just wish I could find the reference that I remember reading at one
- time.
-
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