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Re: How big are your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files?
- From: Frank Fesevur <ffes at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 22:40:42 +0100
- Subject: Re: How big are your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files?
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
- References: <20140131203738 dot GA8707 at calimero dot vinschen dot de>
2014-01-31 Corinna Vinschen:
> Is anybody here who's using /etc/passwd and/or group files
> of more than 16K in size?
We don't go over 16K.
On our server 101 rows result in 12k in /etc/passwd. Doing the basic
math I would say anyone in a AD-environment with over ~135 rows is
likely to get over 16K.
Regards,
Frank
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