RE: [cobalt-users] 32 Group Limitation

["Lyle Scheer" <lyle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You are correct.  It stems from a Linux limitation that a user on a Linux
machine can be in no more than 32 groups.... you can put them in more than
32 groups in the /etc/groups file, but they will only show up in the first
32.  We were not aware of this when we designed our interface to handle
virtual sites, and it came up in our SQA testing, but unless we totally
rework the way we handle groups and virtual site, or patch Linux itself, we
cannot get around this.

Suggested workarounds would be to make a user other than admin the
site-admin for those sites, or ftp data to a temporary location and then
move it to the desired location as the root user in a telnet session.  I
personally prefer loading ssh on the machine and using scp for all of my
data transfers, as it's more secure than ftp.

- Lyle

-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Geoff King
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 2:24 PM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [cobalt-users] 32 Group Limitation


It appears that the limitation for the admin user revovles around the
groups.

When you issue an id command (as user admin) you will notice it only lists
the first 32 groups, yet when you list out the /etc/group file admin is in
all the groups.  I believe this is where the problem stems from, not any of
the programs or services.

Just ran into this today and now I know what you are all talking about.  You
think someone would have tested something like this.  Now let's all do the
Cobalt Twitch!

At least there's a power switch!!!

Geoff




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