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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
To: Austin Gonyou <austin@coremetrics.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Max groups at 32?
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 21:53:17 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020604035317.GL18668@turbolinux.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1023161504.4595.5.camel@UberGeek>

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/


      parent reply	other threads:[~2002-06-04  3:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-04  3:31 Max groups at 32? Austin Gonyou
2002-06-04  3:39 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-06-04 21:05   ` Tomasz Kłoczko
2002-06-04 21:18     ` Tim Hockin
2002-06-04 21:24       ` David S. Miller
2002-06-04 21:38         ` Tim Hockin
2002-06-04 21:57         ` Tim Hockin
2002-06-04 21:40       ` Trond Myklebust
2002-06-04  3:53 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]

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