Date: 18 Mar 2003 11:53:00 -0500 From: "Brandon S. Allbery " KF8NH <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> To: Brian Szymanski <bks10@cornell.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, christopher@indymedia.org Subject: Re: setting kern.ngroups Message-ID: <1048006379.40809.2.camel@rushlight.kf8nh.apk.net> In-Reply-To: <4394.192.168.1.5.1048003806.squirrel@wuhjuhbuh.afraid.org> References: <4394.192.168.1.5.1048003806.squirrel@wuhjuhbuh.afraid.org>
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On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 11:10, Brian Szymanski wrote: > I'm having some trouble setting the (read-only) sysctl value kern.ngroups. Raising the maximum number of groups requires changes all over the place; even if you find them all and rebuild the world (yes, libc depends on it as well) you'll find that any program that looks at the group vector will blow up because it only has space reserved for 16 groups. You don't want to go there. -- brandon s allbery [openafs/solaris/japh/freebsd] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [linux/heimdal/too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university [better check the oblivious first -ke6sls] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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