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On 4/27/2012 4:41 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Achim Gratz<Stromeko<at>  nexgo.de>  writes:
>> The part about "groups with many members" looks oddly familiar.
>> Incidentally I've never had enough patience for makepasswd to finish
>> while scanning the AD... so, given that I don't think I could change all
>> that code, I guess that all the ids/groups used in the ACL should be in
>> passwd/groups?
>
> Fetching all groups from the DC gave me some 60000 entries in a 4MiB group file.
>   And if anything, things became even slower when using that file.  :-(

If you only care about the group for the current user, use the '-c' option
for 'mkgroup'.


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Larry

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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
 >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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