SUMMARY:NIS-Problem: to many users in a group

From: Harald Volz <info_at_mpib-tuebingen.mpg.de>
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 17:45:20 +0100

Thanks to all who answered (one of the best tip was to search in the
archives for alpha-osf-managers_at_ornl.gov).

There was definitely no typo and a \ at the end of shorter lines doesn't
help in this case.

The solution is that there is a line-length limit of 1024 characters for
the ndbm of NIS.

       Tom Webster wrote: The reccomended solution from DEC (from a
while back) is to create a second group (i.e. entbio1) with the SAME
group ID and continue populating the second group. When the system does
a GID lookup it will match the first entry it finds (the original entbio
group) for things like printing group names on ls listings.

So now my src-file for group looks like:
entbio:*:1002:,ebg2,ebg1,pebu,seb,baxi,jekla,joho,ciossek,stene,anjaz,slawek,jz,roessel,claudia,
entbio2:*:1002:,guesteb2,yi,mafu,stlu,gang,slipper,neil,yk,ding,irina,gcg,ken,reott,sicr,hausen,mal,walkie,schla

and it seems to work.

kind regards,
harald

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Received on Mon Nov 11 1996 - 18:07:22 NZDT