From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 5 2:29:32 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 5 02:29:30 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3D4FB37B400 for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 02:29:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 53910 invoked by uid 100); 5 Dec 2000 10:29:20 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14892.50048.178248.560216@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 04:29:20 -0600 (CST) To: Paul Herman Cc: Dmitry Karasik , Subject: Re: NGROUPS_MAX in sys/syslimits.h In-Reply-To: References: <14891.40621.555226.574803@guru.mired.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Message: You should get a better mailer. Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Paul Herman types: > On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > Mike> Which begs the question - why do you need so many groups? There may > > > Mike> be a better solution to the problem that's causing that than kernel > > > Mike> groups. > > > > > > 21 is not many - but of course, it depends what are you conting :) > > > Our current configuration is that every user possesses a group > > > with same name. > > > > You're right - 21 isn't many. But that number will change every time > > you add a user, and your solution to the problem doesn't scale well. > I never understood the reasoning behind each user having their own > group (with their login name). Does anyone use this to their > advantage? A huge "user" or "users" group that each user belongs to > was always the way to go for me. If there's no natural grouping of users, doing this makes it possible for a user to share their files with other users without sharing with everyone or creating a new group. On the other hand, if you want to share different sets of files with two groups of other users, you need multiple groups anyway. To make proper use of this, you need a too users can use to edit "their" /etc/group entry. Possibly a linux distro has such a tool. The thing is, doing this with one large group doesn't solve Dmitry's problem, which is that he wants to be able to access the files without giving everyone else access to them. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Unix/FreeBSD consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message