bin/52433: lines in /etc/group longer than 1024 chars are ignored

[Jilles Tjoelker]

The following reply was made to PR bin/52433; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: jilles at stack.nl (Jilles Tjoelker)
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, jwk at stack.nl
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/52433: lines in /etc/group longer than 1024 chars are ignored
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 13:38:04 +0200 (CEST)

 The 1024-char limit is for getgrouplist(3), login(1) and su(1) need less to
 function correctly.
 
 The problem did not occur on 5.0-RELEASE. It is very likely that it has
 something to do with the NSS changes recently.