From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 19 11:14:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B54F537B5BA for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 11:14:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA37782; Fri, 19 May 2000 20:13:05 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 20:13:05 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: Jonathan Laventhol Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: System management with large groups In-Reply-To: <39255860.FC0F2688@imagination.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 19 May 2000, Jonathan Laventhol wrote: > Dear FreeBSD Hackers -- > > I've got a technically-straightfordward but nonetheless > business-critical problem with the groups structures in FreeBSD > which perhaps you kind souls can help me with. > > *** BACKGROUND *** > [snip] > Question 4: What do people think might break? Would it be better, > worse, or impossible to do this with NIS? > My gut feeling says worse. Have you looked into the ACL patches for FreeBSD? > Question 5: Has anybody done anything like a vigr (like vipw) > for /etc/group? Our (locally-written) user database would be > changing the groups all the time. > > > Many thanks, my FreeBSD heroes, if anybody has anything to offer > on this. > > Best regards, > Jonathan. > -- > Jonathan Laventhol > Technology Director > ____________________________________________________________________ > Imagination 25 Store Street South Crescent London WC1E 7BL England | > Tel +44 171 323 3300 Fax +44 171 323 5801 | > _______________________________________________________| > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message