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Date:      Thu, 22 Mar 2001 20:33:23 +0600 (NS)
From:      Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru>
To:        Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net>
Cc:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: about common group & user ID space (PR kern/14584)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103222032570.92988-100000@iclub.nsu.ru>
In-Reply-To: <3AB97C22.BA09EC06@bellatlantic.net>

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hi, there!

On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Sergey Babkin wrote:

> > >> > on (a) the number of groups of which a user can be a member and (b) the
> > >
> > >For this there is some macro (can't remember the name) which
> > >can be defined in the kernel config file as an option with
> > >a higher value. Setting it higher means higher system overhead
> > >but since the memory size has increased significantly over
> > >the last few years, I think that a higher default value makes
> > >sense.
> > 
> > I do too. Could you submit this as a patch?
> 
> I've looked at it and found that it's already made into a sysctl
> variable kern.ngroups.

it is read-only however (at least on my 4.2-STABLE system)

/fjoe


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