From owner-freebsd-security Thu Mar 22 6:36:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx.nsu.ru (mx.nsu.ru [193.124.215.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CE0F37B724 for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 06:36:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru) Received: from iclub.nsu.ru (root@iclub.nsu.ru [193.124.222.66]) by mx.nsu.ru (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id UAA06945; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 20:33:51 +0600 (NOVT) Received: from localhost (fjoe@localhost) by iclub.nsu.ru (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2MEXNi94056; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 20:33:46 +0600 (NS) (envelope-from fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 20:33:23 +0600 (NS) From: Max Khon To: Sergey Babkin Cc: Brett Glass , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: about common group & user ID space (PR kern/14584) In-Reply-To: <3AB97C22.BA09EC06@bellatlantic.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org hi, there! On Wed, 21 Mar 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've looked at it and found that it's already made into a sysctl > variable kern.ngroups. it is read-only however (at least on my 4.2-STABLE system) /fjoe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message