User limit in passwd file

[David Hawkins]

shirkg at gordon-emh1.army.mil ( Shirk) writes:

>Is there a limit to the number of lines or characters in the 
>passwd file.  We seem to have found it at about 903 lines.

well: wc /etc/passwd
    5304   12678  391753 /etc/passwd

on a Sequent B8 with Dynix 3.0.14   ;-)

later, david
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