Chris's Wiki :: blog/sysadmin/GroupSizeIncreaseWorries Commentshttps://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/GroupSizeIncreaseWorries?atomcommentsDWiki2017-03-29T19:44:34ZRecent comments in Chris's Wiki :: blog/sysadmin/GroupSizeIncreaseWorries.By Robert Sander on /blog/sysadmin/GroupSizeIncreaseWorriestag:CSpace:blog/sysadmin/GroupSizeIncreaseWorries:91c533166cafb12452ca21052b4e5e1175abfd84Robert Sander<div class="wikitext"><p>IIRC you can have multiple lines for one group (with same name and gid) in /etc/passwd and the system will combine the info.</p>
</div>2017-03-29T19:44:34ZBy Miksa on /blog/sysadmin/GroupSizeIncreaseWorriestag:CSpace:blog/sysadmin/GroupSizeIncreaseWorries:0661ef8cc80fd7643fb9d92ce0096650338290bdMiksa<div class="wikitext"><p>That limit sounds impossibly small and probably not enough on this millenia. We have groups with thousands or tens of thousands of users, for example one with all the staff or students.</p>
<p>Admittedly these are on the AD and LDAP side, and there are far fewer users with accounts to our legacy "Unix" systems. I just checked and was quite surprised that our /etc/group had only 4 lines with more than 512 characters and none with more than 2000.</p>
<p>But as an encouragement, at least everything from our old SunOS server to latest RHEL7 servers survive with this.</p>
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