Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 18:02:48 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Mitch Vincent <mitch@cfact.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: group question - 15 member limit? Message-ID: <20030130000248.GX17299@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <50AAD8C8-33E0-11D7-BCAB-0003938024CA@cfact.com> References: <50AAD8C8-33E0-11D7-BCAB-0003938024CA@cfact.com>
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In the last episode (Jan 29), Mitch Vincent said: > What I have is this, a list of users and I want the user www to be a > member of all their groups.. I have this in /etc/groups > > d50:*:1026:www > d49:*:1027:www > d51:*:1028:www > > (etc etc etc - there are about 80 users like this currently.) > > If I do 'id www' it only shows www in the first 15 groups listed in > /etc/groups - this is really the case too because if I su to www and > try to access one of the files (that are perm 770) - I get permission > denied. So it's not just a screw up with 'id' - it appears that www > really isn't in any of those other groups! > > I'm adding groups and group member via 'pw' so I'm pretty sure the > syntax is right.. Is there some kind of limit that would prevent my > www user from being in more than 15 groups? /sys/sys/syslimits.h sets the maximum number of groups at 16 with the NGROUPS parameter. I think you can bump it and rebuild world with no ill effects, except possibly NFS accesses may still only see the first 16. I dont know what effect bumping it up to 100 would do :) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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