On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 10:51:03AM -0500, Ric Tibbetts wrote:
> I've run into this on other *nix's as well, in a couple of very large 
> environments. It's a problem with reading long group lists.
> Work-around #2
> -------------------------
> This is ugly, but it works:
> 
> In /etc/group
> Create the group. We'll call it "Work" for this conversation.
> Add in the number of users that it will take.
> Then create a group called "Work2" WITH THE SAME GID as "Work", and add 
> more users to that.
> When that one is full, Go with "Work3" ... etc... Keeping the GID the 
> same on all of them. It's the GID that's important, not the group name.

Hi Ric,

This works if you have a large number of users to add to one group.
What can I do if I have a single user that needs access to a large
number of groups?  Have you found good workarounds for this?

Thanks,
        .../Ed
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