Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 23:54:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 23:54:51 -0400 Received: from h24-67-14-151.cg.shawcable.net ([24.67.14.151]:55032 "EHLO webber.adilger.int") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 23:54:51 -0400 From: Andreas Dilger Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 21:53:17 -0600 To: Austin Gonyou Cc: Linux Kernel List Subject: Re: Max groups at 32? Message-ID: <20020604035317.GL18668@turbolinux.com> Mail-Followup-To: Austin Gonyou , Linux Kernel List In-Reply-To: <1023161504.4595.5.camel@UberGeek> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-GPG-Key: 1024D/0D35BED6 X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7A37 5D79 BF1B CECA D44F 8A29 A488 39F5 0D35 BED6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Jun 03, 2002 22:31 -0500, Austin Gonyou wrote: > I'm not sure if this is a Linux capabilities problem, a PAM problem, or > what, but I've noticed that If I add a user to > 32 groups...that user > cannot access anything in a directory owned by a group > the 32nd group. This is a kernel/glibc limit. If you need complicated permissions like this, you may want to consider using ACLs (see http://acl.bestbits.at/ for ext2/ext3/XFS ACL patches, I don't think Reiserfs has any ACL support). Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ - 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/