From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 29 17:20:28 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E02E237B401 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 17:20:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from yakka.services.adelaide.edu.au (yakka.services.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.41.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97DD443F93 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 17:20:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tim@lost.net.au) Received: from kochanski.its.adelaide.edu.au (kochanski.its.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.55.139]) by yakka.services.adelaide.edu.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id h0U1Jgh32179; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 11:49:43 +1030 Received: by kochanski.its.adelaide.edu.au (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 30 Jan 2003 11:49:37 +1030 Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 11:49:36 +1030 From: Tim Peters To: Dan Nelson Cc: Mitch Vincent , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: group question - 15 member limit? Message-ID: <20030130011936.GD10102@adelaide.edu.au> References: <50AAD8C8-33E0-11D7-BCAB-0003938024CA@cfact.com> <20030130000248.GX17299@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030130000248.GX17299@dan.emsphone.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organisation: The University of Adelaide Phone: +61-8-8303-6210 Fax: +61-8-8303-4829 X-GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/42FCC987 X-GPG-Key-Fingerprint: 132E 55C7 E07D 249D C617 F1B9 56C6 95A2 42FC C987 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 On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 06:02:48PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jan 29), Mitch Vincent said: > > > > I'm adding groups and group member via 'pw' so I'm pretty sure the > > syntax is right.. Is there some kind of limit that would prevent my > > www user from being in more than 15 groups? > /sys/sys/syslimits.h sets the maximum number of groups at 16 with the > NGROUPS parameter. I think you can bump it and rebuild world with no > ill effects, except possibly NFS accesses may still only see the first > 16. I dont know what effect bumping it up to 100 would do :) A while ago at work we had a FreeBSD machine compiled with NGROUPS set to 128 or 256 (Can't remember which). No problems at all, but we weren't using it as an NFS server. The machine in question has since been replaced by a Redhat linux machine, and we're not allowed to tinker with the kernel - much to my annoyance ... But I digress :-) -tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message