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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: no of groups
Date: 25 Oct 1996 21:59:13 GMT
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Neil Fowler Wright <neil@corpex.com> wrote:

> 	What is the maximum number of groups that you can have in the
> /etc/groups file under FreeBSD 2.1 (does this change unded 2.1.5 / 2.2)

It doesn't change.

> 	Also what is the maximum length of a line in the /etc/groups
> file, and is there a way of getting round such a limit.

/usr/src/lib/libc/gen/getgrent.c says:

#define MAXGRP          200
static char *members[MAXGRP];
#define MAXLINELENGTH   1024
static char line[MAXLINELENGTH];

So now you should know what to change...

-- 
cheers, J"org

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