Re: nis (yp) and large group files.

2001-01-04 Thread Massimo Dal Zotto
> We use nis to distribute access rights across a group of servers we use > for central functions. The majority of files (around 1,000,000) belong > to a central user and we need a lot of people to be able to modify these > files, this means a large group file. If more than a certain number (or > i

Re: nis (yp) and large group files.

2001-01-04 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, I'm not sure what the limit is (I suspect 256 characters). We had a similar issue with our everybody net group (all the machines on the net work). I think the way around this is a hurd of sub groups which are within the limit and the master group referencing the subgroups rather than the memb

nis (yp) and large group files.

2001-01-04 Thread Jeff Green
We use nis to distribute access rights across a group of servers we use for central functions. The majority of files (around 1,000,000) belong to a central user and we need a lot of people to be able to modify these files, this means a large group file. If more than a certain number (or it may be a