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- From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura)
- Subject: Re: 386 Unix - is 5,000 logins realistic?
- Organization: Guru Systems/Funware Department
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:52:27 GMT
- Message-ID: <By1BFG.1z1@flatlin.ka.sub.org>
- References: <1992Nov18.031323.8045@toolz.uucp> <1992Nov18.221254.13744@openage.openage.com>
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- In <1992Nov18.221254.13744@openage.openage.com> gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon) writes:
- >Passwd search times will make logging in slow. 5000 users in 1 group may make
- >/etc/group unuseable, because they all have to be on one line. You may be able
- >to fix that with "\"'s at the end of every x number of users.
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- There is no need to fit 5000 user names in one line in /etc/group. The
- default group is specified in /etc/passwd.
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- You can't use a backslash for continuation lines anyway.
- --
- Christoph Badura --- bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org
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- AIX is a better... is a better... is a better... OpenSystem.
- IBM Rep at GUUG Symposium '92
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