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From: "Randal, Phil" <prandal@herefordshire.gov.uk>
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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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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK
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