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Date:      Sun, 18 Mar 2001 23:54:30 -0700
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), babkin@bellatlantic.net (Sergey Babkin), security@FreeBSD.ORG, wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters), rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG (Robert Watson), fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: about common group & user ID space (PR kern/14584)
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20010318234944.00e3a620@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <200103182339.QAA18696@usr05.primenet.com>
References:  <4.3.2.7.2.20010318123759.00d9dd10@localhost>

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At 04:39 PM 3/18/2001, Terry Lambert wrote:

>I think that trying to make a user a member of 50,000 groups is
>probably a mistake, and it's not "arbitrary" to prevent this.

On the other hand, the current limit is quite low.

>There is really no limit on the number of members permitted in a
>group, I believe. 

I recently had to help out a client who hit that limit. He ran
a graphic arts house and wanted his customers to be able to 
FTP jobs in. So, he added them. One day, after about two
years, the system croaked because the group was too large.

--Brett


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