Re: [Re-asking] Group limitation of 32 in Sarge with kernel 2.6

2005-06-28 Thread Joerg Rossdeutscher
Hi, Am Dienstag, den 28.06.2005, 11:05 +0300 schrieb Pekka Laukkanen: > Some time ago I asked about the limitation that one person (actually a > process) can be member of only 32 groups. The problem was originally in > the kernel but ought to be solved with the 2.6 release. The problem The max

Re: [Re-asking] Group limitation of 32 in Sarge with kernel 2.6

2005-06-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Pekka Laukkanen wrote: > Some time ago I asked about the limitation that one person (actually a > process) can be member of only 32 groups. The problem was originally in > the kernel but ought to be solved with the 2.6 release. The problem > still exists in Debian Sarge with 2.6.8 kernel, though

Re: [Re-asking] Group limitation of 32 in Sarge with kernel 2.6

2005-06-28 Thread Pekka Laukkanen
Rogério Brito wrote: Would enabling POSIX ACL's help you here? Just enable it when mounting the intended filesystems and install the packages acl and attr. Using the commands getfacl and setfacl is essentially like using chmod and chown/chgrp. Thanks for a tip. ACL's look promising and if we do

Re: [Re-asking] Group limitation of 32 in Sarge with kernel 2.6

2005-06-28 Thread Rogério Brito
On Jun 28 2005, Pekka Laukkanen wrote: > This time I would also be happy if someone could point me to another > mailing list (or other source) where to ask. Would it be appropriate to > use for example debian-devel? As an extreme measure I would also be > interested to hear about other distros that

[Re-asking] Group limitation of 32 in Sarge with kernel 2.6

2005-06-28 Thread Pekka Laukkanen
be appropriate to use for example debian-devel? As an extreme measure I would also be interested to hear about other distros that would not have this limitation anymore. Cheers, .peke Original Message Subject: Group limitation of 32 in Sarge with kernel 2.6 Date

Group limitation of 32 in Sarge with kernel 2.6

2005-06-15 Thread Pekka Laukkanen
Hello, There is a nasty limitation in Linux kernel version 2.4 that one user can't belong to more than 32 groups. This is a problem for our company because user management (e.g. for Samba) is done using groups and limit of 32 is getting too small. This limitation has been removed from kernel