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From: Neil Fowler Wright <neil@corpex.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: no of groups
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 15:51:14 +0100
Organization: Corpex Limited
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Hi,

	What is the maximum number of groups that you can have in the
/etc/groups file under FreeBSD 2.1 (does this change unded 2.1.5 / 2.2)

	Also what is the maximum length of a line in the /etc/groups
file, and is there a way of getting round such a limit.

	Cheers,
		Neil

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Neil Fowler Wright			Systems Administrator
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