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From: Jesse Pollard <pollard@admin.navo.hpc.mil>
To: Mike Touloumtzis <miket@bluemug.com>
Subject: Re: [BK PATCH 1/4] fix NGROUPS hard limit (resend)
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On Tuesday 22 October 2002 02:45 pm, Mike Touloumtzis wrote:
> 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.

OK, I'll bite..

Why is this?

I saw the post about having to have access to a lock directory by a
cvsuser, but how is that different than having that directory with an
ACL entry that includes the cvsuser? Or an ACL that includes the
group that the cvsuser is a member of?

Granted, each project repository would have such a directory for
locks belonging to the project, but that seems to already be the
case. Setting up the ACL would just be one additional step in
setting up a project.

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Jesse I Pollard, II
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Any opinions expressed are solely my own.
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