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can you elaborate? what is the purpose?
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We have a security group on a redhat server that external users need to be a member of in order to complete certain tasks within our system. There are a lot of users currently in this security group and we are constantly adding more to it. We are trying to determine if there is a maximum number of users allowed in one security group on a redhat server.
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We have a security group on a redhat server that external users need to be a member of in order to complete certain tasks within our system. There are a lot of users currently in this security group and we are constantly adding more to it. We are trying to determine if there is a maximum number of users allowed in one security group on a redhat server.

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Are you using NIS / LDAP for managing users, groups or flat files on server?<br />
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I have seen the figure 2000 users per group but not sure of max.
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Are you using NIS / LDAP for managing users, groups or flat files on server?

I have seen the figure 2000 users per group but not sure of max.

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Thanks. We are not using NIS /LDAP for managing users and groups on this server. All users and groups are local to the RedHat server.
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Thanks. We are not using NIS /LDAP for managing users and groups on this server. All users and groups are local to the RedHat server.

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UID and GID are uint64<br />
You dont have disk space to worry about it overflowing
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UID and GID are uint64
You dont have disk space to worry about it overflowing

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We currently have a RedHat security group that contains a large amount of users. Is there a maximum amount of users that can be contained in a RedHat security group?
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We currently have a RedHat security group that contains a large amount of users. Is there a maximum amount of users that can be contained in a RedHat security group?

Maximum Number of Users in a RedHat Security Group?

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