max. length of /etc/group entries

/etc/group is limited to 1024 characters per line, but you can easily work

around this by making multiple groups with different names, but the same GID.

/usr/etc/grpck has a hard-wired limit of 512.

If you use NIS, which stores group entries in dbm format, the limit is a

little less than 1024, because the group name itself gets stored twice.

Thanks to all who answered my question,

Frank

[414 byte] By [CodeProf.com] at [2007-12-25 8:47:00]