Description of problem: grpck does not handle large groups Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): shadow-utils-4.0.3-61.RHEL4 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: (untested procedure) 1. create a new group 2. add lots of users until the line in /etc/group is longer than ~30000 characters 3. run grpck 4. grpck has truncated the line and so possibly truncated a user name. The truncated user does not exist and grpck wants to remove the user Actual results: Expected results: Other tools support groups this large so grpch should also. Additional info:
I did some further digging and found the problem. It was actually our gshadow file. It does have corruption but it was caused by 2.1AS and not EL4. grpck was actually doing the correct thing. Sorry about the false report.