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Date:      Sat, 27 Jul 2002 17:50:45 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        "Graham Wharton" <graham@gwsoft.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: misc/41058: Limit set on the number of groups a user can be in.
Message-ID:  <200207272150.g6RLoj3X086628@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200207272100.g6RL05tG030945@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <200207272100.g6RL05tG030945@freefall.freebsd.org>

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<<On Sat, 27 Jul 2002 14:00:05 -0700 (PDT), "Graham Wharton" <graham@gwsoft.co.uk> 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


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