How big are your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files?

Frank Fesevur ffes@users.sourceforge.net
Fri Jan 31 21:41:00 GMT 2014


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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