Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 10:51:07 -0500 From: "C. Ulrich" <dincht@securenym.net> To: jonathan <jonathan@bluesponge.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: group file limits Message-ID: <200312101454.hBAEseP19378@anon.securenym.net> In-Reply-To: <001801c3bea6$30013560$3400a8c0@php> References: <001801c3bea6$30013560$3400a8c0@php>
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On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 17:45, jonathan wrote: > Hi, I'm running a freebsd 4.8 data server on an intranet. > > There is many group (10 and more will come) and a lot of members (10-12 by group) into them... So i'm having big trouble with the fact that 'pw' doesn't read further than 1024 characters into the '/etc/group' file. > > Is there a way to bypass that limit? > > Or a better way of managing many groups on freebsd? > > I really need to solve this... any help will be a miracle! You might want to take a look at using ACLs (Access Control Lists) instead of groups to manage your users. Unfortunately, ACLs appear to be new to FreeBSD 5.x, so if this is for a production environment, you may have to kludge your way around until 5.x is in STABLE. Unless, of course, you're willing to run a 5.x release in a production environment, which is usually quite doable and problem-free, but never deliberately recommended. Charles Ulrich -- http://bityard.net
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