Date: 15 Aug 2001 10:39:18 +0200 From: Dmitry Karasik <dmitry@karasik.eu.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: too many groups Message-ID: <ug0at3efd.fsf@karasik.eu.org> In-Reply-To: Ervins Reinverts's message of "Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:34:00 %2B0300 (EEST)" References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108151028010.18143-100000@dnd.intelectuals.net>
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Hi Ervins!
On 15 Aug 01 at 10:34, "Ervins" (Ervins Reinverts) wrote:
Ervins> Hello, I have to administer a FreeBSD system which was designed
Ervins> (not by me) so that there are lots of different groups and each
Ervins> user belongs to many of them. It was some 3.x release of FreeBSD.
Ervins> After disk crash I decided to upgrade to 4.3-RELEASE and found out
Ervins> that there is limit to 16 groups that the user can belong
Ervins> to. After looking in the internet I found out that there is
Ervins> NGROUPS_MAX (or whatever it was called) variable in syslimits.h
Ervins> . I changed it to somewhat more reasonable value and recompiled
Ervins> the kernel, but it does not seem to help. :( How could I solve
Ervins> this problem? Redesigning everything to use less groups would be
Ervins> real pain.
Sorry this letter is no answer to your question,
but I was stuck in that problem once and was amused
by the amount of answers here all like "you're bad SA
because you need more that 16 groups...". So as far as
I found there is no constructive solution to the problem,
except that recompiling the kernel _and_ make buildworld
_and_ all static-linked programs after you adjusted this
NGROUPS_MAX.
To all: is that little change so painful
that nobody is willing to commit it? I can't
see what could be wrong if NGROUPS_MAX
would be set to 1024, for example. You people committed
worse changes and the project survived, after all :))
--
Sincerely,
Dmitry
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