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Hi,

I am running Solaris 2.5.1 and running into the following problem.

I have a group (let's call it 'thegroup') defined in the /etc/group file
that has 525 users in them. The size of this line is 4114 characters.
Most of the users have 'thegroup' as their secondary group. When they
run the groups command, the output does not show 'thegroup' in it. This
has been causing us some problems and I was wondering if anybody had
come across such limit.

I was looking up some details on whether I can include groups in a group
specification, like-

a_group: tom,*, harry
b_group: mini,jill,terri
thegroup: a_group,b_group

There is one place where the on-line help clearly states that this is
possible. This is in admintool, create new group and selecting the help
from there. The man page on 'group' does not say that. NIS is not an
option to us on this machine.

Thanks in advance!

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Kaizer Sogiawala

Quote:>I have a group (let's call it 'thegroup') defined in the /etc/group file
>that has 525 users in them. The size of this line is 4114 characters.
>Most of the users have 'thegroup' as their secondary group. When they
>run the groups command, the output does not show 'thegroup' in it. This
>has been causing us some problems and I was wondering if anybody had
>come across such limit.

The solution is to have multiple entries with the same groupid:

thegrp1::123:tom,dick,harry
thegrp2::123:mini,jill,terri

Quote:>I was looking up some details on whether I can include groups in a group
>specification, like-

Quote:>There is one place where the on-line help clearly states that this is
>possible. This is in admintool, create new group and selecting the help
>from there. The man page on 'group' does not say that. NIS is not an
>option to us on this machine.

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Quote:>Hi,

>I am running Solaris 2.5.1 and running into the following problem.

>I have a group (let's call it 'thegroup') defined in the /etc/group file
>that has 525 users in them. The size of this line is 4114 characters.
>Most of the users have 'thegroup' as their secondary group. When they
>run the groups command, the output does not show 'thegroup' in it. This
>has been causing us some problems and I was wondering if anybody had
>come across such limit.

Quote:

>I was looking up some details on whether I can include groups in a group
>specification, like-

>a_group: tom,*, harry
>b_group: mini,jill,terri
>thegroup: a_group,b_group

>There is one place where the on-line help clearly states that this is
>possible. This is in admintool, create new group and selecting the help
>from there. The man page on 'group' does not say that. NIS is not an
>option to us on this machine.

Regards, Alexey Sarytchev,
UNIX system administrator,
Center of Financial Technologies, Inc.

An alternative that works on DGUX may be worth trying:  split group
"thegroup" into multiple complete lines:

thegroup::101:fred,barney
thegroup::101:wilma,bambam