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- From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum)
- Subject: Re: /etc/group BUG ultrix4.2A
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.014436.28137@decuac.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 01:44:36 GMT
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- >the length of group entries
- >is fixed at 1024 bytes.
-
- Ayup. Brought to you by the wonder of fixed sized buffers:
-
- char line1[BUFSIZ+1];
-
- BSD appears to have "solved" this problem by rearranging the
- code so it's easier to increase the size of the line buffer - but they
- didn't increase it:
- #define MAXLINELENGTH 1024
- static char line[MAXLINELENGTH];
-
- There's also a hard limit to the number of members that can
- be in a group, namely 200 "or so"
-
- Not likely to be a workaround other than breaking out some groups.
-
- mjr.
-