From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Jul 27 14:50:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20CA137B400 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 14:50:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74A8443E42 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 14:50:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.12.3/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6RLok2D086631 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Sat, 27 Jul 2002 17:50:46 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.12.3/8.12.5/Submit) id g6RLoj3X086628; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 17:50:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 17:50:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200207272150.g6RLoj3X086628@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Graham Wharton" Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/41058: Limit set on the number of groups a user can be in. In-Reply-To: <200207272100.g6RL05tG030945@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200207272100.g6RL05tG030945@freefall.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org < said: > Is this just a value plucked from mid air or is there a reason for not > allowing a user to be in more than 16 groups. There has to be a limit of some sort. 16 was considered a more-than-reasonable compromise between flexibility and efficiency (or sanity!). -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message