<SUMMARY> Max. number of entries on /etc/passwd and /etc/group

From: Jose R. Medina Delgado <jmedina_at_pupr.edu>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 22:33:34 +0400

My original message was :

>Hi Gurus
>
>We have OSF/1 Ver. 3.0 running on an Alpha 4000/610. We are adding users
>to the system. The last time I got a message that stated:
>
> 110 password entries, maximum length 115
>
>I still have to enter over 30 users to the same group. We are running an
>application that requires all users of the application to be member of the
>same group. We have over 150 users that are going to use the same application.
>
>Our OSF-1 license is for an unlimited number of users.
>
>Can we keep on adding users to the same group? What does the message mean?
>If we can't keep on adding users to the same group, what can we do?


The answer is :
    '110 password entries' stands for the amount of lines in /etc/passwd
    and '115 maximum length' means that the largest line in my /etc/passwd
    file have 115 characters long not the maximum of passwords entries.
    So, I can continue adding more users with no problem.


Thanks a lot to everybody

(I received a long list of messages answering that)

Dictionary:
        Overnight = System Administrator

jmedina_at_pupr.edu
Jose Medina, System Administrator
Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico
Received on Fri Aug 25 1995 - 04:41:56 NZST

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