On 26/03/2010 07:17, Steve Langasek wrote: >> The amount of groups that a users needs to belong to in order to get >> the best experience from their computer is growing and growing. This >> wouldn't be a problem, if there wasn't a bug with nfs related to >> having more than 16 groups [2]. > > Well, everyone should just use NFSv4 instead anyway. :-) But yes, we should > at the same time work on getting rid of some of these groups. > You cannot always do that (NFSv4). With NIS there is also a limit of 1023 bytes per group (approximately 100 logins).
Anyway, I recently tried to use my desktop (squeeze) with no groups added, the re-added what I found to be necessary. I am now in: users pulse-rt fuse libvirt So yes, I think we can go with reducing the need for being in the groups (while leaving the groups there for people with other needs). -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
