Messages in this thread | | | From | "Randal, Phil" <> | Subject | RE: [BK PATCH 1/4] fix NGROUPS hard limit (resend) | Date | Wed, 23 Oct 2002 11:16:45 +0100 |
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Chubb [mailto:peter@chubb.wattle.id.au] > Sent: 23 October 2002 01:09 > To: Jesse Pollard > Cc: Tim Hockin; Linux Kernel Mailing List > Subject: Re: [BK PATCH 1/4] fix NGROUPS hard limit (resend) > > > >>>>> "Jesse" == Jesse Pollard <pollard@admin.navo.hpc.mil> writes: > > Jesse> On Tuesday 22 October 2002 12:37 pm, Tim Hockin wrote: > > Jesse> And I really doubt that anybody has 10000 unique groups (or > Jesse> even close to that) running under any system. The center I'm at > > well... if you put each user in his or her own group, the total number > of unique groups gets pretty big pretty fast. > > That doesn't mean, however, that one needs to be in thousands of > groups simultaneously. > > Peter C
IIRC, the RedHat distro tries to put each new user in their own group by default.
Phil
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