On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> > and paste, is there any limit on the maximum nr of users in a particular
> > group ?).
> 
> I think a group is limited to 200 users. Also, a group entry can not be
> longer than 1024 characters.
> 
> (I may be wrong -- I have not tested this. I was looking at
> /usr/src/lib/libc/gen/getgrent.c. for details.)

Thanks.

Any reasons but, as to why a group cannot have other groups as its
members, but only users ?  Such a feature could be quite convenient in
such situations (as my case).

Regards.
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Rakhesh Sasidharan	rakhesh at cse.iitd.ac.in