> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Chubb [mailto:peter@chubb.wattle.id.au]
> Sent: 23 October 2002 01:09
> To: Jesse Pollard
> Cc: Tim Hockin; Linux Kernel Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [BK PATCH 1/4] fix NGROUPS hard limit (resend)
>
>
> >>>>> "Jesse" == Jesse Pollard <pollard@admin.navo.hpc.mil> writes:
>
> Jesse> On Tuesday 22 October 2002 12:37 pm, Tim Hockin wrote:
>
> Jesse> And I really doubt that anybody has 10000 unique groups (or
> Jesse> even close to that) running under any system. The center I'm at
>
> well... if you put each user in his or her own group, the total number
> of unique groups gets pretty big pretty fast.
>
> That doesn't mean, however, that one needs to be in thousands of
> groups simultaneously.
>
> Peter C
IIRC, the RedHat distro tries to put each new user in their own
group by default.
Phil
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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK
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