On Thursday 12 February 2009 19:17:05 Da Rock wrote:
I've been following this thread with interest: are you saying FreeBSD
logins cannot handle more than 16 groups? If so, why?
Because the kernel needs to keep this info. At the time of conception, 16
shorts (16*4=64) per login and maxusers
On Feb 13, 2009, at 1:21 AM, Da Rock wrote:
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 21:52 -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote:
On Feb 12, 2009, at 8:52 PM, Da Rock wrote:
With reasonable organization, and appropriate use of sudo or setgid
binaries for things like people who use SVN or CVS, there generally
isn't reason
On Feb 12, 2009, at 10:21 PM, Da Rock wrote:
So you're talking in terms of the FS only?
Nope. A filesystem might have ACL capability available in it's
specification, but without kernel and userland support, that
capability isn't accessible or meaningful.
I thought you said the kernel
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 5:17 AM, Da Rock rock_on_the_...@comcen.com.au wrote:
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 21:48 -0500, John Almberg wrote:
I've been following this thread with interest: are you saying FreeBSD
logins cannot handle more than 16 groups? If so, why? Is this mitigated
by using other
Just ran into a strange problem... I have a long-standing user
account on my FreeBSD box that no longer works. She can't ssh into
the box, and I can't even su to her account.
$ su jessica
Password:
su: setusercontext: Invalid argument
Doing some googling, I did find people with similar
On Feb 12, 2009, at 3:14 PM, John Almberg wrote:
Just ran into a strange problem... I have a long-standing user
account on my FreeBSD box that no longer works. She can't ssh into
the box, and I can't even su to her account.
$ su jessica
Password:
su: setusercontext: Invalid argument
Does
On Feb 12, 2009, at 7:19 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote:
On Feb 12, 2009, at 3:14 PM, John Almberg wrote:
Just ran into a strange problem... I have a long-standing user
account on my FreeBSD box that no longer works. She can't ssh into
the box, and I can't even su to her account.
$ su jessica
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 21:48 -0500, John Almberg wrote:
On Feb 12, 2009, at 7:19 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote:
On Feb 12, 2009, at 3:14 PM, John Almberg wrote:
Just ran into a strange problem... I have a long-standing user
account on my FreeBSD box that no longer works. She can't ssh into
On Feb 12, 2009, at 8:17 PM, Da Rock wrote:
I've been following this thread with interest: are you saying FreeBSD
logins cannot handle more than 16 groups? If so, why? Is this
mitigated
by using other authentication methods (ie kerberos, ldap, etc)?
There's a compile-time limit of the
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 20:37 -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote:
On Feb 12, 2009, at 8:17 PM, Da Rock wrote:
I've been following this thread with interest: are you saying FreeBSD
logins cannot handle more than 16 groups? If so, why? Is this
mitigated
by using other authentication methods (ie
On Feb 12, 2009, at 8:52 PM, Da Rock wrote:
With reasonable organization, and appropriate use of sudo or setgid
binaries for things like people who use SVN or CVS, there generally
isn't reason or need for a user to be in so many groups. For the
exceptional cases, switching to using a full ACL
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 21:52 -0800, Chuck Swiger wrote:
On Feb 12, 2009, at 8:52 PM, Da Rock wrote:
With reasonable organization, and appropriate use of sudo or setgid
binaries for things like people who use SVN or CVS, there generally
isn't reason or need for a user to be in so many groups.
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