Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Oct 2002 12:45:12 -0700 | Subject | Re: [BK PATCH 1/4] fix NGROUPS hard limit (resend) | From | Mike Touloumtzis <> |
| |
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 01:03:47PM -0500, Jesse Pollard wrote: > > And I really doubt that anybody has 10000 unique groups (or even > close to that) running under any system. The center I'm at has > some of the largest UNIX systems ever made, and there are only > about 600 unique groups over the entire center. The largest number > of groups a user can be in is 32. And nobody even comes close.
Large CVS hosting operations like GNU Savannah have historically used patches to increase NGROUPS. Using one group per project in CVS is the sanest way to manage a big repository with complex permissions.
miket - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |