Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 08:58:56 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> Cc: Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net>, Dmitry Karasik <dk@plab.ku.dk>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: NGROUPS_MAX in sys/syslimits.h Message-ID: <14893.688.472306.158175@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <E143FUd-0001AR-00@post.mail.nl.demon.net> References: <E143FUd-0001AR-00@post.mail.nl.demon.net>
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Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> types: > What is needed here is Access Control Lists, which exist on many Unices. > This is the solution to your problem ! Does BSD support these ? Yes, as I mentioned in my first reply. See the acl man page for details. What's missing are shell tools for manipulating them. <mike > > > Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net> types: > > > On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > > > Mike> Which begs the question - why do you need so many groups? There may > > > > > Mike> be a better solution to the problem that's causing that than kernel > > > > > Mike> groups. > > > > > > > > > > 21 is not many - but of course, it depends what are you conting :) > > > > > Our current configuration is that every user possesses a group > > > > > with same name. > > > > > > > > You're right - 21 isn't many. But that number will change every time > > > > you add a user, and your solution to the problem doesn't scale well. > > > I never understood the reasoning behind each user having their own > > > group (with their login name). Does anyone use this to their > > > advantage? A huge "user" or "users" group that each user belongs to > > > was always the way to go for me. > > > > If there's no natural grouping of users, doing this makes it possible > > for a user to share their files with other users without sharing with > > everyone or creating a new group. On the other hand, if you want to > > share different sets of files with two groups of other users, you need > > multiple groups anyway. To make proper use of this, you need a too > > users can use to edit "their" /etc/group entry. Possibly a linux > > distro has such a tool. > > > > The thing is, doing this with one large group doesn't solve Dmitry's > > problem, which is that he wants to be able to access the files without > > giving everyone else access to them. > > > > <mike > > -- > > Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > > Independent WWW/Unix/FreeBSD consultant, email for more information. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Unix/FreeBSD consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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