Re: Limit on the number of users in a group?
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 07:51:09PM -0500, Ondrej Hrebicek wrote:
> 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.
Bug #212541 was recently filed against libc6 about this. Perhaps you
could send your Red Hat information there (212541@bugs.debian.org)?
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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