On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Ian Moore wrote: > Hi, > > I'm toying with the idea of increasing the maximum number of groups a user > can > belong to on one of my servers - we have a rather complex organisation and > we're hitting the 15 group limit for some people. > > There seems to be differing opinions on how to do this and if it's actually > feasible. One post I found said: > > > in src/sys/sys/syslimits.h there is a constant named 'NGROUPS_MAX'. > > change it to however many you need (within reason), rebuild/install world > > and kernel. > > Another said you have to change all sorts of things in the source, modify a > kernel parameter, rebuild world and rebuild any port that uses NGROUPS - > which probably means a portupgrade -fa. > > There is talk of a maxgroups() parameter in the kernel, but NOTES makes no > mention of this. > > I wonder too if some apps would need their own configuration altered to allow > them to work with the higher limit. > > So I just wanted to ask if anyone has successfully raised the NGROUPS_MAX > limit, especially when running samba & nfs on the system? > > If not, I'll work around the problem a different way. > > (BTW I'm running 5.4-RELEASE) > > Cheers, > -- > Ian > gpg key: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~imoore/no-spam.asc >
Ian, Since you are running FreeBSD 5.x, have you considered using ACLs? See the handbook section 14.12. Jon
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