Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 03:48:11 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Dmitry Karasik" <dmitry@karasik.eu.org>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: too many groups Message-ID: <005d01c12640$f1c0ee80$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <uk804e5u2.fsf@karasik.eu.org>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Dmitry Karasik >Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 2:02 AM >Ted Mittelstaedt in his response to this subject gave good >reason against the change, and although I'm not quite satisfied, >I agree to his reasons - but not to yours. > Actually, I think that Mike and I were not that far off from each other. He gave a technical reason (which may or may not be an issue - you ought to post some benchmarks of your system with the modified group kernel vs a generic one just to see if there's any difference) while I gave a business/political/administrative reason. Of course, mine is going to be not totally satisfying because we all hate to have our choices in software restricted by non-technical reasons. :-) The one thing that I did find unacceptable abotu Mike's answer is that he indicated that there wasn't a single location for this to be changed that would get everything. The situation reminds me of the 8 character username limitation in early versions of FreeBSD. Someone posted a long complicated process discussing what switches to flip to get longer than 8 character usernames, but later on the core team changed it so that there was only a single place to increse the account character limitation. That's what really should be done for the group limitation too. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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