Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 19:57:35 -0500 From: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> To: Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: about common group & user ID space (PR kern/14584) Message-ID: <3ABA9F7F.53F8980A@bellatlantic.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103222032570.92988-100000@iclub.nsu.ru>
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Max Khon wrote: > > 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) It's NGROUPS_MAX defined in in sys/limits.h. I've thought that it's surrounded by #ifdef NGROUPS_MAX but looks like in reality it is not. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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