Hi Jason, we had this problem with groups in NIS under RHEL4, and whilst it may be a bug in RHEL 6.1 the workaround we use might work for you.
[The length of one entry is limited by the NIS protocol to 1024 characters.] ------------------- There is another way of solving this problem for /etc/group entries. This idea is from Ken Cameron: 1. Break the entry into more than one line and name each group slightly differently. 2. Keep the GID the same for all. 3. Have the first entry with the right group name and the GID. I don't put any user names in this one. What happens is that going by user name you pick up the GID when the code reads it. Then going the other way it stops after the first match of GID and takes that name. It's ugly but works! ------------------------ so for example we have largegroup:x:1234: largegroup1:x:1234:uname01,uname02,... largegroup2:x:1234:uname31,uname31,... largegroup3:x:1234:uname61,uname61,... largegroup4:x:1234: largegroup5:x:1234: thanks iain -- Iain Morrison IT Manager MRC Epidemiology Unit Institute of Metabolic Science Box 285 Addenbrooke's Hospital Hills Road Cambridge CB2 0QQ Tel 01223 769200 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason Keltz Sent: 01 December 2011 18:08 To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago) discussion mailing-list Subject: [rhelv6-list] maximum member unix group in /etc/group Under RHEL4, as far as I can see, there was no limitation in unix group size in /etc/group in terms of line lengths or number of users, or at least I never came close to hitting the limit. Under RHEL6.1, I hit the limit today - 126 members. It's not clear if this is a bug or a feature, or why such a limitation would be imposed. It's possible that it was imposed by a patch, but after applying many patches, it's not clear which would have caused it. Any ideas??? Jason. _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list _______________________________________________ rhelv6-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv6-list
