Re: about common group & user ID space (PR kern/14584)

From: Brett Glass (brett@lariat.org)
Date: 03/19/01 

Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 23:54:30 -0700
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>

At 04:39 PM 3/18/2001, Terry Lambert wrote:

>I think that trying to make a user a member of 50,000 groups is
>probably a mistake, and it's not "arbitrary" to prevent this.

On the other hand, the current limit is quite low.

>There is really no limit on the number of members permitted in a
>group, I believe.

I recently had to help out a client who hit that limit. He ran
a graphic arts house and wanted his customers to be able to
FTP jobs in. So, he added them. One day, after about two
years, the system croaked because the group was too large.

--Brett

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