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Let A be a finite nilpotent group acting fixed point freely on the finite (solvable) group G by automorphisms. It is conjectured that the nilpotent length of G is bounded above by ℓ (A) , the number of primes dividing the order of A counted with multiplicities. In the present paper we consider the case A is cyclic and obtain that the nilpotent length of G is at most 2 ℓ (A) if | G | is odd. More generally we prove that the nilpotent length of G is at most 2 ℓ (A) + c (G ; A) when G is of odd order and A normalizes a Sylow system of G where c (G ; A) denotes the number of trivial A -modules appearing in an A -composition series of G. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]