Sylvain Beucler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tapota : > Hello, > > I am experiencing a nasting bug from our beloved Debian useradd > implementation. > > It refuses to set a user's groups if you want to add him to more than > 32 groups. > > I think I'll recompile the 'shadow' suite (just like we did to accept > longer group names and group names that begin with a digit), but I > would like to know if the former Savannah hackers got this problem > before. They should, since the Savannah setup makes people from > project 'www' part of all web* groups, ie ~2000 groups.
All web* groups from the GNU type, isn't it? This was necessary in the past with the previous backend, sv_cvs. With the new backend (which is old now), it was not yet necessary. Nowadays, I think ACL solution should be worked on. Having people member of more than 32 groups is somehow a no go, especially in the web groups case. The way CVS access to GNU webpages seems to me broken by design, when it comes to scalability. Maybe it is time to fix that, instead of dealing with it. And ACL may be the way to go. Regards, -- Mathieu Roy +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | General Homepage: http://yeupou.coleumes.org/ | | Computing Homepage: http://alberich.coleumes.org/ | | Not a native english speaker: | | http://stock.coleumes.org/doc.php?i=/misc-files/flawed-english | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ Savane-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/savane-dev
