“UX: usermod: WARNING: Group entry exceeds 2048 char: \/etc\/group entry truncated”<\/p>\n
That’s today’s error,.. you wake up, logged and that’s the request that get slapped on you face…<\/p>\n
This is when you try to add or modify a user’s group membership with ‘usermod -G’.. It usually happen when the group has tons of members and using usermod will fail as says that it exceeds… blah blah..<\/p>\n
Edit the \/etc\/group file by hand.. take note though that doing a quick ‘\/’ search for the group name will give you a ‘truncated’ message or something…<\/p>\n
Find the group name manually, append the user account to the beginning of the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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