Remove arbitrary requirement on the length of groups. Perhaps we should turn this into a configure option and send upstream ? http://bugs.gentoo.org/3485 --- libmisc/chkname.c +++ libmisc/chkname.c @@ -59,8 +60,10 @@ * Arbitrary limit for group names - max 16 * characters (same as on HP-UX 10). */ +#if 0 if (strlen (name) > 16) return 0; +#endif return good_name (name); }