On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 09:51:03PM +0100, Mathieu Roy wrote: > Sylvain Beucler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tapota : > > 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.
All web* groups from all group types actually. This is a bit strange; for now I use vanilla sv_users and its old hardcoded 'www' support, and I get the error from usermod. I wonder why you didn't get it with the new backend. > 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. I wonder why it is so difficult to be member of more than 32 (sometimes 16) groups. Thanks for your suggestion regarding the ACL. I will keep this in mind, though the priority right now is to get an easily updatable version of Savane working at Savannah :) -- Sylvain
