From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 5 6:59: 6 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 5 06:59:01 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 478DB37B400 for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 06:58:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 59300 invoked by uid 100); 5 Dec 2000 14:58:56 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14893.688.472306.158175@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 08:58:56 -0600 (CST) To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: Paul Herman , Dmitry Karasik , Subject: Re: NGROUPS_MAX in sys/syslimits.h In-Reply-To: References: 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 Cliff Sarginson types: > What is needed here is Access Control Lists, which exist on many Unices. > This is the solution to your problem ! Does BSD support these ? Yes, as I mentioned in my first reply. See the acl man page for details. What's missing are shell tools for manipulating them. > > 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. > > > > > -- > > Mike Meyer 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 > > > -- Mike Meyer 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