Limit on the number of users in a group?

[ondrej@omega.cs.iit.edu (Ondrej Hrebicek)]

Hi,

	when a group in /etc/group contains over a 100 members, chgrp stops
functioning properly when a numeric group ID is passed as an argument.

	Providing a group name as an argument works correctly in all cases.
However, when the 100+ member group exists in /etc/group, providing a
numeric group ID as an argument sends chgrp into an infinite loop eating up
all available resources.

	I have recently upgraded from stable to testing, but I've only noticed
this bug recently, and I am unsure if it has been there before.

	RedHat has addressed a similar bug in April (see
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82619). They have fixed
the bug in the RHSA-2003:089-11 advisory (see
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-089.html).

	Is this a known bug in Debian? Please Reply All as I am not on the list.

Thank you,
Ondrej