Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 18:15:19 -0800 (PST) From: Tony Fleisher <takhus@takhus.mind.net> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net>, security@FreeBSD.ORG, fs@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: about common group & user ID space (PR kern/14584) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103201810590.16744-100000@takhus.dyn.mind.net> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010320002008.00d12b50@localhost>
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On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Brett Glass wrote: > At 06:15 PM 3/19/2001, Sergey Babkin wrote: > > >> > on (a) the number of groups of which a user can be a member and (b) the > > > >For this there is some macro (can't remember the name) which > >can be defined in the kernel config file as an option with > >a higher value. Setting it higher means higher system overhead > >but since the memory size has increased significantly over > >the last few years, I think that a higher default value makes > >sense. > > I do too. Could you submit this as a patch? > > >I think there is such a limit. Or at least it was in the 2.0.5 days. > >I'm not sure about the line length limit. I remember that there > >was such a limit in SVR4.2, so if a group line grew past some size, > >getgrent() and friends went crazy. > > I believe that it was between 100 and 130 when it lost it. Don't > know if it was the number of characters or the number of users. > > [details about a workaround and adduser breakage removed] I believe that the limit on the length of a line in the group file was removed prior to 3.0-RELEASE. See revision 1.14 of src/lib/libc/gen/getgrent.c by wosch. http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/gen/getgrent.c Regards, Tony. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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