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Old 05-10-2008
risby risby is offline
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Originally Posted by antalexi View Post
I have several AIX servers running 5.2.
What is the default max size for a group in /etc/group?
How do I change the default max size for a group to be unlimited (if possible)? Thanks
I'm sorry I can't help with the N_GROUPS_MAX question. That parameter is a limit to the number of groups of which a user can be a member. I believe your original question quoted above is about the number of members a group can have which is sort of 90 degrees different.

I also would like to know if there is a limit on the line length of lines in /etc/group. I believe there is and that it is about 1000 characters but search as I have I cannot find any information about it. It may be that there is a limit imposed by ypmake which promulgates the /etc/group file.

Did you find an answer to your original question?

Can anybody advise where else I could look to find the answer?

Thx