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From: Seppo Kallio <kallio@beeblebrox.cc.jyu.fi>
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Subject: adduser starts to fail
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>Number:         1595
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       adduser starts to fail
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    wosch
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Sep 10 02:30:02 PDT 1996
>Closed-Date:    Tue Sep 17 12:35:43 PDT 1996
>Last-Modified:  Tue Sep 17 12:36:50 PDT 1996
>Originator:     Seppo Kallio
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.1.5
>Organization:
Seppo Kallio				kallio@jyu.fi
Computing Center			Fax +358-14-603611
U of Jyvskyl		62.14N 25.44E	Phone +358-14-603606
PL 35, 40351 Jyvskyl, Finland		http://www.jyu.fi/~kallio
>Environment:


>Description:

Adding users using adduser command starts to fail if many users
are added to the same group. 

>How-To-Repeat:

Add users to same group and follow how the one line in /etc/group file 
grows longer and longer until adduser starts to fail

>Fix:

Temporal fix

Save /etc/group to /etc/group.orig and

After every adduser:
	
cp /etc/goup.orig /etc/group

Permanent Fix: adduser sould check, how many names it has added to 
the /etc/group file and warn if there are too many or it should have
option not to add accounts to the groups in /etc/group
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: gnats-admin->wosch 
Responsible-Changed-By: pst 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Sep 16 01:25:30 PDT 1996 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: wosch 
State-Changed-When: Tue Sep 17 12:35:43 PDT 1996 
State-Changed-Why:  
fixed in adduser.perl , rev 1.19 
>Unformatted:
