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From: scotte@center.uscs.com (L. Scott Emmons)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Bug in NIS? (2.0.5)
Date: 18 Oct 1995 17:07:27 GMT
Organization: U.S. Computer Services Research Center, El Dorado Hills, CA
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <SCOTTE.95Oct18100727@odie.center.uscs.com>
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Has anyone noticed that FreeBSD 2.0.5 does not like NIS group maps
with groups having many members? Looks like there is an internal
buffer-size limit.

If you have an entry that's too long the system becomes unusable - you
can't login or anything.

Anyone else seen this before?
-scotte
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  L. Scott Emmons       | CableData R&D Center - El Dorado Hills, CA, USA
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