From owner-freebsd-security Wed Jun 24 10:10:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA12677 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 10:10:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from j51.com (aaronb@gorplex.j51.com [209.94.121.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA12537 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 10:10:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aaronb@j51.com) Received: from localhost (aaronb@localhost) by j51.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA09252; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 13:11:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 13:11:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Bornstein To: Matt Behrens cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: adduser chmod permissions In-Reply-To: <000701bd9f7f$a86c6160$302f72ce@wibble.iserv.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Matt Behrens wrote: > Can't we expand these numbers? Seems a bit restrictive to me, and expanding > can't break anything, will it? > Taking a good thing one step further, why have hard limits at all? I'm sure we could muck around with the implementation enough without changing the interface. As long as we leave the power to create new groups a superuser privelege, I see no problem with this approach. -- Aaron Bornstein : aaronb at j51 dot com : http://www.j51.com/~aaronb Fiat Justitia Ruat Caelum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message