Re: NGROUP increase - thoughts

Andreas Dilger (adilger@turbolinux.com)
Mon, 16 Jul 2001 17:47:49 -0600 (MDT)

You write:
> I'm sure this has been given thought, so I want to probe teh collective
> resources. We need to have users in more than 32 groups. In fact, they
> may need to be a member of MANY more groups than that.
>
> What is the current thinking on this problem? Would it be desirable to
> replace current->groups[NGROUPS] with a poibnter to an array? Thus
> allowing (with libc changes) many more groups?

The real solution is ACLs (if you are talking filesystem permissions).
See acl.bestbits.at, I think, for ext2 ACL/EA patch.

Cheers, Andreas

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