Re: adduser and addgroup
No nis, no nis+, no nfs. Simple standolone (on a network) box.
K
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Seth R Arnold wrote:
> Is this potato system hooked to any nis or nis+ domains, or is nfs used?
> I think if any of those three are "yes", then group names are limited to
> 16 characters.
>
> I think I remember reading this in the Sun documentation about two weeks
> ago. Please someone correct me if I am wrong. :)
>
> * Krzysztof Adamski <kadamski@netsurf.net> [000228 10:28]:
> > There is a difference between slink and potato, if you use usernames
> > longer then 16 chars then the addgroup part of adduser fails. On slink I
> > can have groups at least 31 chars (maybe longer) but only 16 on potato.
> >
> > K
> >
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