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Xref: sserve comp.sys.sun.admin:40795 comp.unix.admin:25323 comp.unix.bsd:15601 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!enews.sgi.com!mti.sgi.com!jcw From: jcw@mti.sgi.com (J.C. Webber III) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.os.unix,comp.sys.sun.managers,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: /etc/group: long lines Date: 16 Dec 1994 03:25:31 GMT Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Lines: 40 Distribution: na Message-ID: <3cr1bb$aq9@miranda.mti.sgi.com> References: <D0tCFv.E6o@itex.jct.ac.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: oblio.mti.sgi.com Keywords: group In <D0tCFv.E6o@itex.jct.ac.il> roman@shekel.jct.ac.il (haim İhoward¨ roman) writes: >Our systems are SunOS 4.1.1 & SunOS 4.1.3 >One of the entries in our /etc/group file is getting too long. It is >already over 1024 characters. Users near the end of this line are NOT >listed as part of this group. >Is there some way to define sets of users & enter these sets instead >of individual users? Two ideas are: > use NIS netgroups instead of users > define groups in terms of other groups >Unfortunately, as far as I know, none of these are possible. >I will try to check these news groups, but I would appreciate answers >being mailed directly to roman@brachot.jct.ac.il. We had the same problem here. How we solved it was to divide the group in two. For example, our hw group is now: hw::1039:hw1,hw2 hw1::1039:LIST_OF_USERS_FROM_A_to_M hw2::1039:LIST_OF_USERS_FROM_N_to_Z works fine for us. You'll notice that the group id is the same for all three entries. There was one problem with a routine in perl called getgroup (something like that). We only had one user that was using that call in a script and he found another way to resolve his task. He was using it to verify a user was a member of that group. I don't remember what his work-around was, sorry. -- J.C. Webber III jcw@mti.sgi.com jcw@jumper.corp.sgi.com (home) Systems Administrator email beeper: jcw_p@mti.sgi.com Silicon Graphics, Inc Tel (415)390-4120 Fax (415)390-6174 "Comparing Dos to UNIX is like comparing a mix-master to a chef's kitchen"