From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 15 0:31: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dnd.intelectuals.net (ns.vza.gov.lv [195.13.254.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2B3F37B401 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 00:30:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from erv@quattro.lv) Received: from localhost (erv@localhost) by dnd.intelectuals.net (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f7F7Y6i18325 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:34:06 +0300 (EEST) X-Authentication-Warning: dnd.intelectuals.net: erv owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:34:00 +0300 (EEST) From: Ervins Reinverts X-Sender: erv@dnd.intelectuals.net To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: too many groups Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Hello, I have to administer a FreeBSD system which was designed (not by me) so that there are lots of different groups and each user belongs to many of them. It was some 3.x release of FreeBSD. After disk crash I decided to upgrade to 4.3-RELEASE and found out that there is limit to 16 groups that the user can belong to. After looking in the internet I found out that there is NGROUPS_MAX (or whatever it was called) variable in syslimits.h . I changed it to somewhat more reasonable value and recompiled the kernel, but it does not seem to help. :( How could I solve this problem? Redesigning everything to use less groups would be real pain. Thanks in advance, Ervins Reinverts To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message