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Operating Systems Solaris Big /etc/group creating issue Post 302854413 by solaris_1977 on Tuesday 17th of September 2013 12:37:17 PM
Old 09-17-2013
Big /etc/group creating issue
I have Solaris-10 with kernel patch 142900-03, Update 7 Sparc server.
Code:
root@ddlomps40:/# uname -a
SunOS ddlomps40 5.10 Generic_142900-03 sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise
root@ddlomps40:/# cat /etc/release
                       Solaris 10 5/09 s10s_u7wos_08 SPARC
           Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
                        Use is subject to license terms.
                             Assembled 30 March 2009
root@ddlomps40:/# cat /etc/group | wc -l
     102
root@ddlomps40:/# zoneadm list -icv
  ID NAME             STATUS     PATH                           BRAND    IP
   0 global           running    /                              native   shared
root@ddlomps40:/# cat /etc/passwd | wc -l
    1043
root@ddlomps40:/# cat /etc/group | wc -l
     102
root@ddlomps40:/#

As group file is increased huge, so whenever I am adding new person to group, few old user is getting removed from group. Since /etc/group file is huge, it does not allow "usermod -G" and we have add user in that group manually with vi. Is there any way to increase this limit with any kernel patch level or update ?
Any any other way to fix this issue ?
Last edited by solaris_1977; 09-17-2013 at 02:26 PM..
 

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LEARN ABOUT MOJAVE

chroot

CHROOT(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						 CHROOT(8)

NAME

     chroot -- change root directory

SYNOPSIS

     chroot [-u -user] [-g -group] [-G -group,group,...] newroot [command]

DESCRIPTION

     The chroot command changes its root directory to the supplied directory newroot and exec's command, if supplied, or an interactive copy of
     your shell.

     If the -u, -g or -G options are given, the user, group and group list of the process are set to these values after the chroot has taken
     place.  See setgid(2), setgroups(2), setuid(2), getgrnam(3) and getpwnam(3).

     Note, command or the shell are run as your real-user-id.

ENVIRONMENT

     The following environment variable is referenced by chroot:

     SHELL  If set, the string specified by SHELL is interpreted as the name of the shell to exec.  If the variable SHELL is not set, /bin/sh is
	    used.

SEE ALSO

     chdir(2), chroot(2), environ(7)

HISTORY

     The chroot utility first appeared in 4.4BSD.

SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS

     chroot should never be installed setuid root, as it would then be possible to exploit the program to gain root privileges.

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