From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 16 3:48:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BA1337B40A for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 03:48:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f7GAmCb36879; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 03:48:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Dmitry Karasik" , Subject: RE: too many groups Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 03:48:11 -0700 Keywords: 2001334874 Message-ID: <005d01c12640$f1c0ee80$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Dmitry Karasik >Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 2:02 AM >Ted Mittelstaedt in his response to this subject gave good >reason against the change, and although I'm not quite satisfied, >I agree to his reasons - but not to yours. > Actually, I think that Mike and I were not that far off from each other. He gave a technical reason (which may or may not be an issue - you ought to post some benchmarks of your system with the modified group kernel vs a generic one just to see if there's any difference) while I gave a business/political/administrative reason. Of course, mine is going to be not totally satisfying because we all hate to have our choices in software restricted by non-technical reasons. :-) The one thing that I did find unacceptable abotu Mike's answer is that he indicated that there wasn't a single location for this to be changed that would get everything. The situation reminds me of the 8 character username limitation in early versions of FreeBSD. Someone posted a long complicated process discussing what switches to flip to get longer than 8 character usernames, but later on the core team changed it so that there was only a single place to increse the account character limitation. That's what really should be done for the group limitation too. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message