From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 15 2: 6:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C06737B409 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 02:06:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f7F95wb33142; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 02:06:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Dmitry Karasik" , Subject: RE: too many groups Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 02:05:58 -0700 Keywords: 2001334874 Message-ID: <002401c12569$7f78c6e0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 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 >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Dmitry Karasik > >To all: is that little change so painful >that nobody is willing to commit it? I can't >see what could be wrong if NGROUPS_MAX >would be set to 1024, for example. You people committed >worse changes and the project survived, after all :)) > The 16 group membership limit is identical to that in Solaris. Like the original poster implied, exceeding this limit isn't the brightest thing, if the system could have been designed from the beginning to stay under it. You never know when sometime in the future you might not find yourself having to migrate to Solaris or participate in NIS with Solaris or other UNIXII. Forcing the people to go through the hoops of recompiling everything before going off the beaten path at least makes sure that they really understand what the full implications of doing this are. I'm willing to break backwards compatibility as much as the next guy, but not for no reason at all. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message