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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>
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Subject: Re: NGROUP increase - thoughts
In-Reply-To: <3B5379A9.6A9B11BE@sun.com> "from Tim Hockin at Jul 16, 2001 04:32:57
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To: Tim Hockin <thockin@sun.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 17:47:49 -0600 (MDT)
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You write:
> I'm sure this has been given thought, so I want to probe teh collective
> resources.  We need to have users in more than 32 groups.  In fact, they
> may need to be a member of MANY more groups than that.
> 
> What is the current thinking on this problem?  Would it be desirable to
> replace current->groups[NGROUPS] with a poibnter to an array?  Thus
> allowing (with libc changes) many more groups?

The real solution is ACLs (if you are talking filesystem permissions).
See acl.bestbits.at, I think, for ext2 ACL/EA patch.

Cheers, Andreas
-- 
Andreas Dilger  \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto,
                 \  would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/               -- Dogbert
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