The Thursday 2004-01-22 at 19:51 -0000, steve-ss wrote:
Is the 'users' group special in some way that it doesn't have a limit for its data?
You don't need to add users to the 'users' group, they are there by default. On my '/etc/group' file, there is nobody in the users group: users:x:100: Now that I think about it, I don't remember how the system knows that users belong to the 'users' groups - except that Yast can change that default (users administration, Set defaults).
What can't they do now that they could by being members of the other groups?
uucp --> unsure. All serial terminals have that group, so I suppose it is needed for serial port use. dialout --> use the modem. I don't suppose you want your 160 students to compete for one modem :-p audio --> same the soundcard video --> needed for full use of the video card and X locally. I don't think they need that for remote use.
What is the limit to the string that NIS can handle?
Sorry for so many questions, it's just it seems that the nis documentation is the exception to the rtfm, rule :-(
Sorry, I don't know much about nis. There is a howto: /usr/share/doc/howto/en/html/NIS-HOWTO/index.html -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson