On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 12:48 -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: > Looking at the documentation of the /etc/group file including > some google searches, it appears to me that, contrary to the man > pages for group, Linux systems generally do not put membership > user names for the user's primary group in the record for it in > the /etc/group file, only for secondary groups. FreeBSD seems to > do the same thing while SCO OpenServer has full entries for the > primary group as well as secondaries. > > Is there a best practice when manipulating these regarding line > length? I've see articles that recommend splitting long entries > into multiple group lines with the same group id, while at least > some SuSE Linux Enterprise systems produce single long lines > (30,869 characters on a site with about 5,100 accounts). > > How would the system's group maintenance routines interact with a > group file where this was done? ---- the 'best practice' in my view is to use LDAP and forget about huge flat file users/groups? Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.