From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 15 23:13:05 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94BB716A418 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:13:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out3.apple.com (mail-out3.apple.com [17.254.13.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 441A913C43E for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:13:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay13.apple.com (relay13.apple.com [17.128.113.29]) by mail-out3.apple.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38FDD1E2550B; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:13:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay13.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay13.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id 1D9CA28087; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:13:05 -0800 (PST) X-AuditID: 1180711d-99be6bb000001e9b-cc-478d3e01b2ab Received: from cswiger1.apple.com (cswiger1.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay13.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 0022328084; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:13:04 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <5B919738-51BD-4319-A112-BC322FD7904F@mac.com> From: Chuck Swiger To: Andrea Venturoli In-Reply-To: <478D3B40.3000509@netfence.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v915) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:13:04 -0800 References: <478D3B40.3000509@netfence.it> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.915) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Limit on number of groups a user can join X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:13:05 -0000 On Jan 15, 2008, at 3:01 PM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > I made some tries removing him from other groups and I got to the > conclusion that it works as long as he is in no more than 15 groups, > but breaks when he join the 16th. Is this an hard limit? Can it be > extended? Why this? This limit is somewhat historical but cannot easily be changed because this max # is hard-coded into the NFS protocol, which needs to describe which groups a user belongs to. If you're not using NFS, you might try changing the declaration of KI_NGROUPS in /usr/src/sys/ user.h and build a new kernel, I believe.... -- -Chuck