From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 20 17:36:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from demeter.syr.edu (demeter.syr.edu [128.230.243.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3871637B40B for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 17:36:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jnwhiteh@localhost) by demeter.syr.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5L0diR27207 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 19:39:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jnwhiteh@demeter.syr.edu) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 19:39:44 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Whitehead To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Group/User limitations Message-ID: <20020620193057.F27175-100000@demeter.syr.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In my current setup on FreeBSD 4.5, I have the following needs.. I have 250+ users who actively upload their new developments onto the webserver. Each user belongs to a group which is the same as their username (standard). Each directory is owned by the creating user, and is group owned by an abstract group (such as "healthdept", or "boxoffice"). This is to allow multiple users to edit the same files, and keep permissions intact. I have an administrator of the web directories, who is NOT and should NOT be an admin of the machine. He should belong to all of the abstract groups, so he can make changes as necessary. I'm wondering if a user has a limitation on the amount of groups they can belong to. I have not been able to get any more than the default group (username) and another 15 group ownerships. (Checking this through id -Gn username). At first I thought that "id" wasn't showing more than the 16 groups, but I tested the permissions on one of the grouped directories that wasn't displayed, and i wasn't able to make the changes. Does anyone know if there is a limitation on groups? ------------------------------------------------------------------ James N. Whitehead II - 229 Schine Student Center - (315) 443-4747 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Kappa Kappa Psi - Eta Phi Syracuse University Upsilon - Spring 2001 B.S. in Computer Science (2002) NED Secretary/Treasurer M.S. Candidate in 2004 Recording Secretary Student Affairs G.A. Ritual Chair webmaster@students.syr.edu Syracuse University Marching Band :: Clarinet Section Leader Sour Sitrus Society :: Web Committee Co-Chair ----------------------------------------------------------------- jnwhiteh@brokendreams.net http://brokendreams.net ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message