From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 31 10:02:59 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A4D61065683 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:02:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michael@powerzone.net.au) Received: from cinta.thebushtelegraph.com.au (christ58.lnk.telstra.net [165.228.0.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D7478FC0A for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:02:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michael@powerzone.net.au) Received: (qmail 15959 invoked from network); 31 Jul 2008 20:02:56 +1000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.10.10.8?) (michael@christie.org.au@10.10.10.8) by cinta.thebushtelegraph.com.au with SMTP; 31 Jul 2008 20:02:56 +1000 Message-ID: <48918DDC.5010909@powerzone.net.au> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:03:08 +1000 From: Michael Christie User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080724) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ruben de Groot , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4890DDE7.9090102@powerzone.net.au> <20080730232402.GA99013@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20080731082305.GA57069@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <20080731082305.GA57069@ei.bzerk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Group Limits X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:02:59 -0000 Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 01:24:02AM +0200, Roland Smith typed: > >> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 07:32:23AM +1000, Michael Christie wrote: >> > > >>> Can any one advise me how to expand the number of groups allow on >>> freebsd I think my default it is 16, I need to make it 50 to 100 >>> >> The number 16 is from /usr/include/sys/syslimits.h. But my /etc/group >> has 37 groups without problems. >> > > That's not the point. > The limit is not on the total number of groups, but on the number of > groups a user can be a member of. > > Ruben > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > well if this is the case , is there a way of changing the number of groups a user can be a member of ? what i need is some advice on a work around for this, I have Google and there in not much. see below http://readlist.com/lists/lists.sourceforge.net/webadmin-list/1/7087.html "Ok have do some hours of work since my last post and have discovered the following. When a virtual domain is created using virtualmin it creates a user and a group with the same name ie user name king1 and group king1. Then it adds the newly created group king1 to the www group which is fine see below. This is fine for awhile until to many groups are members of the www group and apache complains and will not start also see below. " Michael