Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 19:11:35 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: current@freebsd.org Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: [RC1] Login not possible Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1031213190956.58711B-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1031213181941.27754O-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Robert Watson wrote:
> It could we be we should think about bumping _SC_NGROUPS_MAX to 32,
> although this might have substantial ABI impacts we'd have to look into
> carefully. You can also add optional groups, joined using newgrp(1),
> but the lack of a shadow password database for that is fairly limiting
> (and it's far from user friendly compared to just being a member of more
> groups).
Speaking of which, it would be interesting to know if anyone is running
FreeBSD with larger values of _SC_NGROUPS_MAX, and if so, what operational
comments they might have to make ("recompile everything", "it works fine",
...)
Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research
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