On Thursday 08 December 2005 19:00, Igor Robul wrote: > On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 01:48:04PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > On 12/7/05, Ian Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > > > Have you considered cascading groups? That's the normal workaround on > > Enterprise Unix systems like HP-UX and Solaris. > > > > Instead of putting everyong in "group", do this instead. > > > > group:*:100:group1,group2 > > group1:*:101:user1,user2 > > group2:*:102:user3, user4 > > AFAIK FreeBSD (and Linux) does not support nested groups (I'm not sure > about POSIX) :-(
Well, there goes that idea! > So you can use ACLs (as I do now), or you can recompile world/kernel > with changed syslimits.h: > syslimits.h:#define NGROUPS_MAX 16 > > as I did with FreeBSD-4.X. But be careful on system upgrading. > You need compile both world and kernel because these limits get compiled > to libc, kernel and some static linked utilite and some static linked > utilites.. So it actually does work! And there's no need to adjust or re-compile any ports, just world and kernel? Cheers, -- Ian gpg key: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~imoore/no-spam.asc
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