Topic: editing /etc/group

[David]

I seem to have succumbed to a bug or anomaly that is wiping out my groups once the number of groups and user groups get up around 507 lines in /etc/group  Once it reaches a certain point...everything vanishes and I'm left with exactly 29 groups with many important things missing.  I'm at about 477 lines now and I still have yet to add nearly 60 machines to my domain.  I was wondering if anyone has any advice or if it's possible (practical) to edit /etc/group and get rid of some of the user groups (are they necessary?)  Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

David

[GW]

Hi

I Believe that you can ONLY have 28 or 29 Groups NO MORE IS Allowed, the reason i do not know sorry.

Hope this hopes

Rrgds

GW

[GW]

Sorry if your using verison 4.1.2 please read the link below

http://www.e-smith.org/bugs/index.php3?op=showBug&bugID=61


Hope this again helps

GW

[David Trask]

Does anyone know if each of my users and machines has to be a group or can I make one group in /etc/group such as machines and put them all in there?

David