Re: max number of groups

2007-10-31 Thread Tobias Weingartner
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Douglas A. Tutty wrote: There has to be _some_ solution but it doesn't have to revolve around groups. Surely we don't need a separate box for every 16 projects (and lets not get into another reason to use Xen :)) ) Group accounts with ssh keys controlling

Re: max number of groups

2007-10-29 Thread Bob Beck
* Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-26 16:53]: On 10/26/07, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What, then, is the correct way to separate the project files of more than 16 projects, where some users will need access to all of the groups? There has to be _some_ solution

Re: max number of groups

2007-10-27 Thread Lars Noodén
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: There has to be _some_ solution but it doesn't have to revolve around groups. Surely we don't need a separate box for every 16 projects ... Again, are these groups only affecting files? Then you may look into other file systems, such as OpenAFS. In OpenAFS you can use

Re: max number of groups

2007-10-26 Thread Ted Unangst
On 10/25/07, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:19:19AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: Well, there is no solution. 16 was chosen a lot of years ago as a reasonable amount of state to carry around, and that's the standard and we're probably going to stick with

Re: max number of groups

2007-10-26 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 09:55:13AM -0700, Ted Unangst wrote: On 10/25/07, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:19:19AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: Well, there is no solution. 16 was chosen a lot of years ago as a reasonable amount of state to carry around,

Re: max number of groups

2007-10-26 Thread Darren Spruell
On 10/26/07, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 09:55:13AM -0700, Ted Unangst wrote: On 10/25/07, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:19:19AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: Well, there is no solution. 16 was chosen a lot of

Re: max number of groups

2007-10-26 Thread nocfed
On 10/26/07, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 09:55:13AM -0700, Ted Unangst wrote: On 10/25/07, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:19:19AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: Well, there is no solution. 16 was chosen a lot of

Re: max number of groups

2007-10-26 Thread Ted Unangst
On 10/26/07, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What, then, is the correct way to separate the project files of more than 16 projects, where some users will need access to all of the groups? There has to be _some_ solution but it doesn't have to revolve around groups. Surely we

Re: max number of groups

2007-10-26 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 03:38:51PM -0700, Darren Spruell wrote: On 10/26/07, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 09:55:13AM -0700, Ted Unangst wrote: On 10/25/07, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:19:19AM -0600, Theo de

max number of groups

2007-10-25 Thread Alexey Vatchenko
Hi! I'm running an OpenBSD server with a lot of users and project groups. Each project has its own group or two to protect it's files from other users. As i know each user can have not greater than 16 groups. As the solution, i can change value of NGROUPS_MAX in sys/syslimits.h. But it requires

Re: max number of groups

2007-10-25 Thread Theo de Raadt
I'm running an OpenBSD server with a lot of users and project groups. Each project has its own group or two to protect it's files from other users. As i know each user can have not greater than 16 groups. As the solution, i can change value of NGROUPS_MAX in sys/syslimits.h. But it

Re: max number of groups

2007-10-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:19:19AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: I'm running an OpenBSD server with a lot of users and project groups. Each project has its own group or two to protect it's files from other users. How do you guys usually solve this problem when user needs to be member of

Re: max number of groups

2007-10-25 Thread Eric Furman
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:21:32 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:19:19AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: I'm running an OpenBSD server with a lot of users and project groups. Each project has its own group or two to protect it's files from other users.